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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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Mario

Jun 14 '19

How I Created MailtoUI.js to Modernize Mailto Links

#email #mailto #opensource #javascript

6 min read

Jun 14 '19

How I Dealt with a Bug in an Abandoned Library

#javascript #opensource #github

3 min read

Derk-Jan Karrenbeld for XP Bytes

Jun 10 '19

Writing a code analyzer in TypeScript (from scratch)

#showdev #typescript #opensource #tutorial

17 min read

Jun 13 '19

Resilience pattern for Java microservices. The Circuit Breaker.

#java #microservices #opensource #devops

2 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 7 '19

The Silly Joys of Coding

#meta #ruby #rails #opensource

1 min read

Jun 12 '19

Home Grown IoT - Data Downloader

#fsharp #iot #opensource #dotnet

11 min read

Petar G. Petrov

Jun 11 '19

Java and Native Code in OpenJDK 13

#java #ssh #programming #opensource

5 min read

Jun 5 '19

GitHub Just Released a New Version of Their Desktop App

#news #opensource #github #git

1 min read

Jun 11 '19

Bento-starter v1.0.0 is out ✨ (#PWA, #boilerplate, #vue.js, #firebase)

#javascript #webdev #vue #opensource

1 min read

innoraft12

Jun 11 '19

Popups in Drupal 8? No problem!

#discuss #drupal #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Jun 11 '19

Make a Dataflow Editor with Vue

#vue #opensource #javascript #contributorswanted

1 min read

Jun 10 '19

Hackitect series vol.2 - Open source cybersecurity zoo

#security #devops #opensource #infosec

5 min read

George

Jun 4 '19

What would you like to see implemented on DEV?

#discuss #opensource #devteam #meta

1 min read

Swapnil Agarwal

Jun 10 '19

📚 Read all Medium posts for free

#showdev #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

Jun 10 '19

Colorful timeline, Survey, Directional hover | Module Monday 42

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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