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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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Antoine

Feb 22 '20

Parse an expression with Superpower

#dotnet #opensource #csharp #superpower

2 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Feb 20 '20

Open Source Creator Series, Part 5: Understanding "Distribution" in Open Source Licensing

#opensource #distribution #licensing #diy

2 min read

JeB

Feb 16 '20

Open Source Series: Documentation

#opensource #github

4 min read

Feb 18 '20

Challenges of Open-Source

#opensource #tips

11 min read

marcia

Feb 18 '20

Moving proprietary processes to Free and Open source processes

#opensource #linux

2 min read

Feb 17 '20

Attention! New .NET Vulnerabilities

#dotnet #opensource #vulnerability #report

5 min read

Asim Aslam

Feb 13 '20

Micro v2.0.0 release is out!

#go #opensource #microservices

1 min read

Christian Heilmann

Jan 23 '20

Contributor performance matters

#opensource #simplicity #diversity

3 min read

Feb 12 '20

Open Source Monetization Resource List

#opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

sashapatterson248

Feb 13 '20

How to increase the interactivity of an app?

#news #angular #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Vinayak Raghuvamshi

Feb 13 '20

Exploring Rust

#rust #opensource #ddiscuss

1 min read

Feb 10 '20

Open Source Code in the Workplace

#discuss #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Feb 8 '20

Open Sourcing My Large React and Firebase ToDo App

#opensource #todo #react #firebase

1 min read

Feb 24 '17

Exploring Unseen Open Source Infrastructure

#opensource #infrastructure #dependencies #github

2 min read

Alan

Feb 9 '20

Evolving past the test pyramid with T shaped testing

#testing #opensource

1 min read

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