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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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Mar 1 '20

PureOS - Hype and Reality

#linux #review #distro #opensource

4 min read

Mar 1 '20

How to make angular app watch for changes in angular library and update itself?

#angular #library #opensource

2 min read

Patryk Jeziorowski

Feb 29 '20

Learn with opensource - Appwish status update

#showdev #opensource #webdev #learning

3 min read

Bobby

Feb 29 '20

Write gorgeous documentations for your products using Markdown inside your Laravel app

#laravel #vue #php #opensource

2 min read

Pradnyanand Milind Pohare

Feb 27 '20

How to cache videos in a react-native project using Android's ExoPlayer cache

#reactnative #android #opensource #npm

3 min read

Mike Solomon for Meeshkan

Feb 28 '20

Announcing the HTTP Mocking Toolkit

#news #testing #opensource

6 min read

Ryan Yost

Feb 28 '20

How to analyze your npm dependencies for better, more maintainable code

#javascript #npm #webdev #opensource

12 min read

E. Berke KARAGÖZ for Açıklab

Feb 28 '20

Linux Dil Sistemi ve Kontrolcüsü

#turkish #linux #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Pradnyanand Milind Pohare

Feb 27 '20

How to fork GitHub repository and use as npm dependency inside a react-native project

#reactnative #github #npm #opensource

2 min read

Feb 27 '20

💻 CliWrap — Execute Shell Commands with Extensive Support for Piping

#showdev #csharp #dotnet #opensource

9 min read

Feb 27 '20

Flink Forward Virtual Conference 2020 - what to expect?

#opensource #eventsinyourcity #java #apacheflink

3 min read

Feb 27 '20

Spring Framework - Dependency Injection

#spring #opensource

3 min read

Coder Gals

Feb 26 '20

DebConf 2021 in Kosovo

#debian #opensource #debconf

2 min read

Feb 26 '20

How to install Matomo on Ubuntu 18.04

#webdev #analytics #ubuntu #opensource

4 min read

Andreas

Feb 19 '20

22 Shout-Outs to Open Source and Infinite Creativity

#opensource #vue #react #angular

6 min read

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