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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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Ayu Adiati for Virtual Coffee

Sep 30 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: Why You Should Participate

#opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Sep 18 '24

Как сделать свой VPN: установка и настройка Amnezia

#vpn #amnezia #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

Sep 18 '24

Is Carbon Language Moving Towards Success or Self-Destruction? A Case Study in Rapid Deployments

#devops #programming #softwaredevelopment #opensource

8 min read

Lulu

Aug 29 '24

First Impressions of SafeLine: The Most Starred Open-Source WAF on GitHub

#cybersecurity #devops #docker #opensource

3 min read

Harsh S

Aug 15 '24

Migrating Encache to TS

#opensource #typescript #node #community

1 min read

Sep 18 '24

Build Better UIs with These 5 Design System Tools

#opensource #webdev #productivity #ui

4 min read

Sep 18 '24

How to override your Zustand state.

#javascript #opensource #typescript #zustand

3 min read

Nevo David

Sep 12 '24

🎉 Join a squad, contribute code, and win awesome swag from 10 amazing sponsors 🚀

#webdev #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Aug 15 '24

Why conference ticket prices are higher than they seem: a look at open-source solutions

#opensource #ticketing

3 min read

Carrie

Sep 18 '24

5 Best Free and Open Source WAF for 2025

#websecurity #webapplicationfirewall #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 28 '24

Color palette in branding: How Logto generate a custom color scheme for your brand

#webdev #opensource #identity #design

4 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Sep 17 '24

Critical LLM Security Risks and Best Practices for Teams

#programming #ai #opensource #security

8 min read

Manuel

Sep 18 '24

Free and Censorship-Resistant Alternatives to Everyday Digital Tools

#privacy #android #opensource

4 min read

mpoiiii

Sep 18 '24

Challenges and Risks of Downloading from YouTube and Instagram

#learning #devops #programming #opensource

3 min read

Bertrand for Intuit Developers

Sep 17 '24

Migrating CI/CD from Jenkins to Argo

#devops #kubernetes #cicd #opensource

15 min read

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