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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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Build the Future with the Auto Horizon Developer Challenge

#developers #ai #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Jan 29 '25

EngCode: The English-Like Programming Language for Everyone

#programming #beginners #opensource #engcode

1 min read

Satoshi S. for Web Dev Path

Jan 28 '25

Start contributing to a Popular Open Source Project

#python #opensource #taipy #beginners

4 min read

Jan 21 '25

How Programming Will Look In the Future?

#discuss #programming #opensource #news

2 min read

Abubaker Siddique

Jan 16 '25

How to Turn Your Open-Source Python Projects into a Money-Making Machine

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Dave MacLeod for SurrealDB

Jan 29 '25

Making your own PR to the SurrealDB source code

#database #rust #programming #opensource

14 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Jan 23 '25

Why we’re betting on Kubernetes (and you should too)

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Tung Leo

Dec 25 '24

Wrapping Up 2024: IIS and Apache Tomcat Join the DevOps Basics Journey! 🎉

#devops #opensource #tooling #webdev

2 min read

Jan 13 '25

15 Open-Source Projects to Replace Popular SaaS Tools & Apps 👨‍💻🔥

#opensource #github #saas #productivity

6 min read

Christopher C. Johnson

Jan 17 '25

Fluent Assertions 8: Corporate License Update

#dotnet #testing #opensource #csharp

4 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jan 28 '25

How to Install DeepSeek Janus Pro 7B Locally?

#deepseek #opensource #januspro #ai

6 min read

Nicholas Synovic

Jan 28 '25

DeepSeek w/ Ollama + Open WebUI

#watercooler #ai #docker #opensource

4 min read

Elanat Framework

Feb 7 '25

Elanat Products License Change from GPLv3 to MIT

#news #webdev #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jan 26 '25

Major Release 2 of the Perl Distribution Workflow

#opensource #release #perl

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 27 '25

AWS open source newsletter, #206

#opensource #aws

23 min read

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