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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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Quazi Mohammad Aldin Fardin

Jan 19 '23

How To install Laravel 9x on your Ubuntu

#discuss #productivity #opensource #github

1 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Jan 19 '23

Disrupting the Node caching panorama - Our Journey In The Open Source World - cache-candidate

#javascript #typescript #opensource #github

7 min read

Jan 18 '23

Fun and Useful CLI Tools for Linux

#linux #programming #opensource #bash

2 min read

Kinsta

Jan 18 '23

Our Top 5 Picks for the Best Open Source Database Software

#database #webdev #opensource #devops

5 min read

Jan 17 '23

Deploy your React App on GitHub

#discuss #programming #opensource #go

3 min read

Viktoria Bors-Pajuste

Jan 15 '23

Overcoming the Struggles as a Junior Web Developer?! How?

#discuss #programming #opensource

1 min read

Akolade

Jan 17 '23

Models in Django

#opensource #github #webdev #developers

6 min read

Wumi4

Jan 17 '23

Why I listened to radio stations for working

#github #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Marija N. for Microtica

Jan 16 '23

7 open source projects worth the hype in 2023

#opensource #microtica #community

6 min read

TheGuildBot for The Guild

Jan 17 '23

Build realtime GraphQL backends with Grafbase

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

Jan 17 '23

Code Smell 192 - Optional Attributes

#programming #opensource #firstpost #indie

2 min read

Jan 17 '23

PARdon me for my awkward interview

#go #opensource #developer #productivity

3 min read

Jan 16 '23

Critical Cases to Handle in a Real-Time Chat Application

#discuss #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

Chidi Eze for Hackmamba

Jan 16 '23

Create a Paywall on a Next.js Blog Using FingerPrint and Sanity

#discuss #architecture #opensource #career

8 min read

Jan 16 '23

Open Source Development Course 2023.01 week #1

#opensource #beginners #programming #osdc

3 min read

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