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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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Nov 19 '24

Debugging bugs in x64dbg debugger. Step out to GUI

#cpp #programming #opensource

9 min read

Nov 19 '24

Sakura Boot: Reduce boilerplate, save time, build backends faster with Spring Boot

#opensource #java #spring #webdev

2 min read

Oct 16 '24

Making a captivating personal homepage, the good, the bad & the ugly (mostly ugly)

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

4 min read

C. Silva

Oct 16 '24

The Importance of Building an Online Presence as a Developer

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Nov 19 '24

My GitHub Highlights

#webdev #javascript #opensource #github

1 min read

skllzrmy

Oct 15 '24

A Dangerous Power Play: Matt Mullenweg's Latest Move Threatens To Totally Fork Him Over

#wordpress #opensource #development

4 min read

Amnezia

Nov 19 '24

Setting up your own secure VPN with Amnezia VPN

#vpn #tutorial #opensource #amnezia

3 min read

Nov 18 '24

🚀 Hacktoberfest 2024 Contributor (October 1st - October 31st) 🌍

#webdev #hacktoberfest #holopin #opensource

1 min read

Lymah

Nov 16 '24

How to Set Up Goose on Windows 🦢

#goose #opensource #ai #webdev

5 min read

sudhanshu chaurasia

Nov 18 '24

Linux Kernel and Boot process for Beginner

#linux #kubernetes #devops #opensource

2 min read

Nov 18 '24

New node module (NPM) for data analyse with mongodb

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

3 min read

ATIXAG

Nov 18 '24

Scaling Applications to Zero with Kubernetes and KEDA

#discuss #kubernetes #opensource #aws

4 min read

Oliver Bennet for GraphPe

Nov 18 '24

Prometheus 3.0: A Quantum Leap in Monitoring

#prometheus #opensource #monitoring #webdev

3 min read

Oct 15 '24

Hacktoberfest with SuperTokens

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Nov 18 '24

Découvrez la qualité de l'air avec l'API Air Visual 🌍💨

#javascript #api #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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