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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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Lulu

Aug 14 '24

11.5K Stars! This Web Application Firewall Tool is Incredible!

#cybersecurity #opensource #docker #webdev

2 min read

Sep 13 '24

Navigating the World of Open Source Collaboration: My First Experience with Code Reviews

#opensource #codereview #github

3 min read

jfmartinz

Sep 13 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: Everything You Need to Know!

#opensource #beginners

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 12 '24

The Human Dependency Graph: Why We Need to Rethink Security in Open Source

#opensource #security

4 min read

Sep 13 '24

Navigating Code Reviews and Understanding Issues

#opensource #webdev #typescript

5 min read

Tung Leo

Sep 15 '24

DevOps Basics reaches 200 stars: A milestone celebration 🎉

#devops #opensource #tooling #cicd

2 min read

杨飞叶

Sep 2 '24

My first VSCode plugin for syntax conversion of import statements

#javascript #vscode #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Sep 13 '24

Starting an Open Source Project - OSD#2

#opensource #ai #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Ingila Ejaz for Playful Programming

Sep 11 '24

Monorepos with Nx: Why You Might Want a Single Home for All Your Code

#javascript #typescript #opensource #git

3 min read

Sep 12 '24

Deploying a Node.js Application on AWS EC2: A Step-by-Step Guide

#devops #opensource #learning #cloud

4 min read

Samreen

Sep 12 '24

The Best Dev Blogs

#webdev #beginners #learning #opensource

2 min read

Sep 12 '24

createWithEqualityFnImpl in Zustand’s source code explained.

#javascript #opensource #typescript #zustand

3 min read

Miguel Ángel Cabrera Miñagorri

Sep 12 '24

Offloading AI inference to your users' devices

#ai #api #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Lulu

Sep 12 '24

Simple, Easy-to-Use, and Open-Source Web Application Firewall

#opensource #cybersecurity #docker #devops

2 min read

Sep 12 '24

An Extensive Open-Source Collection of AI Agent Implementations with Multiple Use Cases and Levels

#ai #genai #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

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