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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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Jul 14 '21

Update from old Java version to OpenJDK 16 windows

#java #opensource #windows #tutorial

1 min read

Rachael Wright-Munn for New Relic

Jul 13 '21

Relicans Summer Camp Week 2: Open Source Week

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #reicanssummercamp

6 min read

Jul 13 '21

It's your birthday, now cut cake virtually !

#showdev #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Lucas.T

Jul 13 '21

My own cli boilerplate tool

#showdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Chris Reddington for Cloud with Chris

Jul 13 '21

Introducing the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF)

#containers #cloudnative #kubernetes #opensource

4 min read

Jul 13 '21

Let's Grow with LetsGrowMore ✨

#opensource #letsgrowmore #lgm #opensourceprogram

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 12 '21

AWS open source news and updates #75

#opensource #aws

18 min read

Bradley Schofield for Appwrite

Jul 10 '21

Appwrite In Production: Backups and Restores

#webdev #opensource #devops #tutorial

5 min read

Jul 12 '21

Release 1.55 of perl-workflow, a minor feature release

#perl #release #opensource

3 min read

Sadisha Nimsara

Jul 12 '21

Build your own Operating System #1_setup_booting

#ubuntu #opensource #c #assembly

5 min read

Saad Irfan

Jul 12 '21

Hitchhiker's Guide To Writing Your First Open-source software

#opensource #tutorial #javascript #node

6 min read

Jul 15 '21

10+ Ways To Make Side Income Online as a Developer

#developer #opensource #onlinepresence #sideincome

4 min read

Jul 12 '21

Using Telegraf and QuestDB to store metrics in a time series database

#opensource #monitoring #database #devops

7 min read

Christy Jacob for Appwrite

Jul 12 '21

Send Welcome Emails using Appwrite's Java Cloud Functions!

#opensource #cloud #java #serverless

7 min read

Naman Budhiraja

Jul 11 '21

Guide For Your First Open Source Contribution.💻

#opensource #codenewbie #100daysofcode

4 min read

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