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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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Hassann

Apr 22

SoapUI Pro vs SoapUI Open Source: Key Differences and When to Switch

#api #opensource #testing #tooling

6 min read

Apr 21

Markdown

#markdown #opensource #writing #webhistory

4 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

From AR Dreamer to Reality Checker: My 4-Month Journey with Spatial Memory

#ar #opensource #javascript #mobile

5 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

Building Real-World AR: The Brutal Truths After 6 Months of Development

#ar #javascript #mobile #opensource

9 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The Architect's Nightmare: Building a Spatial Memory API That Actually Works

#ar #javascript #mobile #opensource

7 min read

Nimesh Kulkarni

May 25

GitHub Glow-Up: Open Source, READMEs, Badges, Streaks, Git and gh CLI

#github #opensource #git #beginners

7 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

Building Memories That Last: The Final Chapter of My AR App Journey

#ar #mobile #opensource #tech

7 min read

May 14

Stop Reviewing Code Like It's 2020: I Built a Multi-Agent AI Code Reviewer

#ai #node #opensource #javascript

3 min read

May 25

I Built ShellReq - A Native API Client for VS Code & Terminal

#opensource #vscode #typescript #npm

2 min read

Apr 21

Go queue v1.7.0: a new Delay queue for timers, retries, and TTLs

#showdev #programming #go #opensource

2 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

Building the Backend for a Spatial Memory Network: Lessons from the Trenches

#ai #opensource #javascript #mobile

8 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

From Digital Ghost Towns to Memory Palaces: My Second Attempt at AR Memory Magic

#ar #javascript #mobile #opensource

8 min read

Apr 21

I Wrote a Script to Fix Audible's Unreadable PDF Filenames

#showdev #python #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Vilius

May 4

My AI Agents Kept Burning Tokens on Subagents That Can't Code — So I Built a Decision Gate

#python #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Forensic mapping of 552 linked repositories

May 21

Found a Second Layer to a GitHub Follow Botnet

#security #github #python #opensource

17 min read

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