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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.

submission guidelines

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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gus

Mar 22 '22

x86_64 Assembly Language

#opensource #assembly #assemblylanguage #x8664

4 min read

Sandra Ahlgrimm for Microsoft Azure

Mar 1 '22

Java in VS Code - Learn directly from the core engineers

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #java

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 21 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #105

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Mar 21 '22

Get Started Part 1: The beginning of everything.

#python #arduino #vscode #opensource

1 min read

SimonFischerSE for Medusa

Mar 17 '22

Open source ecommerce - How Medusa compares to Shopify

#javascript #webdev #opensource #programming

7 min read

Paul C. Ishaili

Mar 21 '22

Life Quotes and philosophies -Mr. Paul Ishaili.

#devjournal #productivity #career #opensource

1 min read

Danglewood

Mar 21 '22

#FOSS in Python: Using The OpenBB Terminal To Identify Secular Investment Opportunitites

#showdev #python #opensource #fintech

24 min read

Helitha Rupasinghe

Mar 21 '22

Covid-19 Tracker App

#opensource #javascript #programming #tutorial

1 min read

Tiexin Guo for DevStream

Mar 21 '22

DevStream Codebase Walkthrough (Open-Source DevOps Tool Manager)

#devops #opensource #devstream #go

7 min read

Shloka

Mar 20 '22

GCBM Workflow Summary

#mojaglobal #gcbm #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Mar 17 '22

Public APIs situation

#opensource #github #webdev #programming

2 min read

Rohith V

Mar 20 '22

Graph Algorithm - Cycle Detection in Undirected Graph using BFS

#programming #career #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Mar 15 '22

Create Your Open Source Ecommerce Store using Medusa and Next.js

#javascript #webdev #opensource #node

2 min read

Voltra

Mar 19 '22

My views on Open Source

#discuss #opensource #philosophy

2 min read

Mar 20 '22

Magento Review

#discuss #webdev #php #opensource

2 min read

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