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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 7 '21

Privacy cookies

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Ryo Ota

Dec 17 '20

The Power of Pure HTTP – screen share, real-time messaging, SSH and VNC

#javascript #webdev #linux #opensource

14 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Jan 5 '21

What stinks about programming? 😖

#discuss #programming #opensource #codenewbie

1 min read

Serokell

Jan 6 '21

16 Awesome Elixir Open-Source Projects

#elixir #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Kooin-Shin

Jan 6 '21

Introduce Open-Source project TCPProxy.

#proxy #java #opensource

1 min read

Jan 5 '21

Why I Re-Wrote the focus-trap-react Test Suite Using React Testing Library

#react #javascript #testing #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 4 '21

AWS open source news and updates No.50

#opensource #aws

9 min read

Jan 3 '21

What's the best way to represent time spent on open source on a CV or Linkedin?

#discuss #career #opensource

1 min read

Abdisalan

Dec 12 '20

How One Developer Recreated AirDrop Using Just JavaScript

#node #javascript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Adrian Matei for Codever

Jan 3 '21

Public code snippets are now available

#productivity #opensource #snippets #bookmarks

1 min read

Harshith Venkatesh

Jan 2 '21

CodeSandBox to the rescue for github changes

#opensource #codenewbie #software #javascript

3 min read

Jan 1 '21

My MLH Fellowship Journey with forem (dev.to) 🌱

#mlhgrad #opensource #forem #devto

18 min read

Thiago Avelino for prestd

Jan 2 '21

Full Text Search in PostgreSQL

#postgres #opensource #elasticsearch #database

4 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Dec 2 '20

How to claim your Hacktoberfest completion badge

#opensource #hacktoberfest #meta

2 min read

Arslan Tayliyev

Jan 13 '21

How to outsource app development smartly: the nerves-saving guide

#kubernetes #reason #opensource #programming

9 min read

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