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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Unicorn Developer

Jan 27 '23

Top 10 bugs found in C++ projects in 2022

#cpp #programming #opensource #tooling

13 min read

Dmitry Daw

Jan 27 '23

What to do if Sidekiq job is stuck

#opensource #gratitude #tooling #development

3 min read

diar

Jan 27 '23

Loading environment values into go Structs

#library #go #opensource

2 min read

Oliver Juhl for Medusa

Jan 26 '23

Designing a Git-Like Flow in Ecommerce APIs

#opensource #javascript #programming #architecture

5 min read

Felix Oakz

Jan 26 '23

speak english IMEDIATAMENTE

#laravel #opensource #github #productivity

3 min read

Abishek Haththakage

Feb 6 '23

What methods were used for software development prior to DevOps?

#opensource #learning #codenewbie

6 min read

Alexey Timin for ReductStore

Jan 26 '23

ReductStore v1.3.0 Released!

#news #database #opensource #reductstore

2 min read

Mustafif

Jan 26 '23

The Happenings with TexCreate v3

#news #programming #rust #opensource

2 min read

MiguelMJ

Jan 26 '23

Programming mathematical objects

#mathematics #opensource #distributedsystems

9 min read

Alex (The Engineering Bolt) ⚡

Jan 25 '23

Meta (Facebook): Software Engineer Levels

#vscode #tooling #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dilek Karasoy for Picovoice

Jan 25 '23

Day 18: Hotword detection with Python

#discuss #productivity #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Christine Belzie

Feb 19 '23

How To Make A Pull Request Without Pulling Your Hair Out

#tutorial #github #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Jan 20 '23

Introducing Quine to the Dev.To community

#news #community #startup #opensource

1 min read

Ciro

Jan 24 '23

Anotación @Transient

#gratitude #opensource #learning

1 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Jan 24 '23

The Progress on Postman's Open Source Program Office (OSPO)

#showdev #opensource #api #postman

3 min read

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