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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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Alexander Omorokunwa

Oct 30 '17

Why hackathons should insist on free software.

#opensource #fossstories #fossnigeria

3 min read

Sep 19 '17

🚀 Introducing Lozad.js: Performant & light lazy loading library

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webperf

2 min read

Flynn

Sep 12 '17

Getting started with Lyft Envoy for microservices resilience

#programming #opensource #c #microservices

9 min read

Sep 14 '17

Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec tests

#opensource #rspec #testing #rails

1 min read

Sep 11 '17

Developers Need to Start Paying Attention to Licenses

#opensource #softwaredevelopment

14 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jan 17 '18

How To Install Let’s Encrypt Certificate On Godaddy Shared Cpanel Hosting

#opensource #howto #internet #linux

4 min read

Matteo Joliveau

Oct 17 '17

Moving to OpenShift!

#opensource #development

3 min read

Seth Michael Larson

Aug 29 '17

Debugging Travis CI without Commits

#showdev #testing #opensource #github

3 min read

Jul 28 '20

A new way to support open source

#opensource #maintainers #webdev

2 min read

Jamie Read

Aug 21 '17

Hazel Networking

#showdev #networking #dotnet #opensource

2 min read

Jul 2 '20

Don't be a meanie when contributing to open source

#opensource #github

3 min read

Jordan Eisenburger

Aug 5 '20

Feasibility report for implementing PWA Studio v7.0.0

#javascript #opensource

4 min read

WebSailors

Jun 25 '20

5 Reasons why Open-Source worth it

#opensource #webdev

4 min read

Aug 7 '17

Necessity is the Mother of Adoption

#opensource #bleedingedge #trends

3 min read

Jul 23 '20

Turn Your Static Website Into a Web App in Minutes With Remake, An Open Source Framework

#opensource #webdev #frontend #code

3 min read

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