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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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Raffi Sarkissian for Lago

Sep 1 '22

😵‍💫 Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers

#billing #opensource

9 min read

Sidharth Mohanty

Sep 10 '22

Final Part: GSoC 2022 | Rocket.Chat | EmbeddedChat

#javascript #react #opensource #npm

4 min read

Amarachi Iheanacho

Sep 10 '22

Understanding Linux and Its Commands

#linux #opensource #operatingsystem #tutorial

4 min read

Sep 10 '22

Stable Diffusion: Tutorials, Resources, and Tools

#tutorial #machinelearning #stablediffusion #opensource

7 min read

Sep 9 '22

Nhost: An Open Source Backend as a Service for Web and Mobile Apps

#beginners #database #opensource #graphql

8 min read

Sep 3 '22

Notesnook is now open source!

#opensource #javascript #react #reactnative

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 9 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #126

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Meteor Software

Sep 9 '22

How to get started with Meteor and ask for help if you are stuck

#javascript #node #opensource #meteor

3 min read

Alexander Samaniego

Sep 8 '22

Open-Source Rookie

#beginners #opensource

3 min read

Ege Aytin

Sep 8 '22

Relational Based Access Control Models

#opensource #go #webdev #database

6 min read

Raffi Sarkissian for Lago

Sep 8 '22

6 steps to build a usage-based billing system with Lago (YC S21)

#billing #opensource

6 min read

Sep 8 '22

10 Trending Github repositories / September, 8 2022

#github #opensource

3 min read

Aviv Mor for krud.dev

Sep 8 '22

Object Mapping advanced features & QoL with Java

#opensource #java #architecture #oop

7 min read

Sep 8 '22

My journey in the land of Linux!

#linux #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Oleksii Borisenko

Sep 8 '22

Complete guide to open source licenses for developers. Friendly licenses for proprietary software

#opensource #license #tutorial

17 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Sep 7 '22

Are microservices optimized for edge and embedded? Q&A live

#opensource #microservices #embedded #luos

1 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 7 '22

Flask Example OAuth Github - Free Product

#flask #oauth #opensource

2 min read

Sep 1 '22

How I Maintain OSS Projects

#opensource #github #tutorial #devops

5 min read

Shai Almog

Aug 30 '22

Open Source Bait and Switch

#opensource #programming #community #devrel

7 min read

Unicorn Developer

Sep 7 '22

Build to order? Checking MSBuild for the second time

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #programming

10 min read

Sep 7 '22

The mysteries of GraphQL clients' cache - The Introduction

#graphql #opensource #tutorial #webdev

7 min read

Ramakrushna Mohapatra

Sep 7 '22

Open Source: Github From Zero to Hero

#github #git #opensource

7 min read

Johannes Hötter for Kern AI

Sep 6 '22

Build for Hugging Face, Rasa or Sklearn

#opensource #nlp #datascience #python

2 min read

Sep 7 '22

How to solve C++ memory problems efficiently

#apachedoris #programming #opensource #database

8 min read

Sep 6 '22

Release 0.3.0 of my Perl Dist::Zilla GitHub Action

#perl #githubaction #release #opensource

2 min read

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