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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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Jan 23 '21

Building and compiling Linux Kernel :

#linux #kernel #opensource #compilation

1 min read

Sam Bauch

Jan 19 '21

SAML vs. OAuth

#opensource #webdev #security

7 min read

Fleek for Fleek

Jan 20 '21

Welcome GunDB to our Open Web Protocol Stack!

#database #opensource #decentralized #webdev

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 22 '21

Show dev: open-source admin dashboard UI library in React.js and Bootstrap 5

#showdev #react #bootstrap #opensource

3 min read

Roman Sedov for Taiga UI

Jan 19 '21

Taiga UI is a new Angular UI Kit that you should try

#angular #typescript #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jan 21 '21

The Downsides of GitHub Sponsors... and a Solution

#github #opensource

2 min read

Ali Abbas

Jan 20 '21

Just Published an NPM Package 🔥

#showdev #node #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Jan 19 '21

Become an Open Source contributor

#opensource #hacktoberfest #mentalhealth #programming

6 min read

Silvestar Bistrović

Jan 19 '21

The first year of my side project: Code Line Daily

#showdev #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Gaurav

Jan 19 '21

Monotone - A Nuxt, tailwind portfolio and blog template powered by netlify CMS.

#vue #nuxt #netlify #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 18 '21

AWS open source news and updates #52

#aws #opensource

19 min read

Fum

Jan 17 '21

5 Convincing reasons to choose Linux for programming

#linux #opensource #productivity #beginners

7 min read

Alexander Buzin

Jan 18 '21

Discord community for Open Source founders

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #github

1 min read

Jan 13 '21

Why We Open Sourced Our Entire Product

#opensource #startup #testing #javascript

5 min read

Jiahao

Jan 17 '21

Open-source Deep Dive: Hound

#elixir #testing #opensource

12 min read

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