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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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Purneswar Prasad

Aug 29 '24

Polyfills - a filler or a gaping hole? (Part-2)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #cybersecurity

5 min read

Lulu

Aug 29 '24

Secure Your Website with SafeLine-Configuring on a Standalone Server

#cybersecurity #devops #opensource #waf

2 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Aug 29 '24

PostgREST 12.2: Prometheus metrics

#webdev #programming #database #opensource

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 29 '24

Mastering Web Security on Linux: A Practical Guide to SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #devops

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 29 '24

Ultimate Guide to Web Security on Linux Servers with SafeLine WAF

#opensource #cybersecurity #devops #waf

2 min read

Nikhil Soman Sahu

Aug 29 '24

Integrating Google Maps in Spring Boot Backend: A Comprehensive Guide

#webdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Aug 27 '24

New NestJS Swagger Generator evolved than ever

#typescript #opensource #nestjs #openapi

3 min read

Lina Lam

Aug 28 '24

How to Automate Your Product Hunt Launch: Lessons from Helicone's Success

#producthunt #productlaunch #opensource #automation

1 min read

Hamdi (KHELIL) LION

Aug 29 '24

🚀 Building a Kubernetes Operator with an NGINX CRD

#kubernetes #cloud #containers #opensource

6 min read

Naveen

Jul 26 '24

🚀 DevTodo: Your Ultimate Tool for Tracking TODOs in GitHub Repositories!

#webdev #typescript #nextjs #opensource

1 min read

Aug 28 '24

A new way to create desktop applications: Tauri + React

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Tesseract Coding

Jul 27 '24

What is Open Source and How Does It Work?

#webdev #opensource

1 min read

keploy

Aug 28 '24

Smoke Testing: A Quick and Efficient Quality Check

#opensource #node #css #learning

3 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 28 '24

Create a remark plugin to extract MDX reading time

#webdev #mdx #opensource #identity

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 28 '24

Deploying SafeLine WAF on CentOS 7 with Docker

#docker #cybersecurity #devops #opensource

4 min read

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