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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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Vsevolod

Dec 13 '24

Ohhh, it feels like I've completely forgotten how to truly "code"

#programming #learning #opensource

4 min read

Dec 13 '24

Short appreciation for dev tools

#tooling #zed #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Sudo BLAZE

Dec 13 '24

So I created Linktree alternative...

#webdev #opensource #astro #frontend

2 min read

Mike Faber

Dec 13 '24

Top Open Source eCommerce Platforms

#opensource #ecommerce #github

1 min read

fast-d3v

Dec 4 '24

Building an actionable ⚡️ GitHub account with these open-source projects 👩🏻‍💻

#opensource #programming #beginners #productivity

6 min read

Judy

Dec 13 '24

Search for records containing a specified string group in multi fields #eg90

#oracle #programming #devops #opensource

1 min read

Hamid Haghdoost

Dec 13 '24

A Simple Guide to Choosing Licenses for Your Projects

#opensource #software #gnu

2 min read

DASWU

Dec 13 '24

Code-Level Analysis: Design Principles of JuiceFS Metadata and Data Storage

#ai #opensource

11 min read

Dec 13 '24

ts-pattern usage in Documenso source code

#opensource #typescript #nextjs #documenso

3 min read

TheoForger

Dec 13 '24

December (so far) Recap!

#opensource #beginners

3 min read

Ushakov Michael for Wissance

Dec 12 '24

Override Go app configuration with Environment variable

#go #opensource #programming #devops

2 min read

Alvaro Gallego De Paz

Nov 8 '24

New Here! Introducing Chipster: A Flexible Multi-Entry Input for React – Feedback Welcome

#react #opensource #frontend #webcomponents

1 min read

Abhay

Dec 12 '24

Recording My Coding Journey

#beginners #programming #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

Artem

Dec 12 '24

Trivy Vulnerability Scans Adnvanced Filtering

#trivy #vulnerabilities #security #opensource

2 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 for SWIRL

Dec 4 '24

Top AI Search Engines for Business & Startups in 2025

#programming #opensource #ai #machinelearning

5 min read

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