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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.

submission guidelines

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

Sep 5 '24

SafeLine WAF: Free, Powerful Web Security in a Few Clicks

#devops #opensource #docker #cybersecurity

2 min read

NocoBase

Sep 3 '24

Top 11 Open Source Internal Tools with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #github #development #webdev

8 min read

Martyn Davies for Zuplo

Sep 5 '24

Open-Source API Documentation with Zudoku

#openapi #documentation #react #opensource

3 min read

Lulu

Sep 5 '24

Boost Your Website Security in 3 Minutes with SafeLine, the Open-Source WAF with 11.8K GitHub Stars

#cybersecurity #devops #docker #opensource

2 min read

Sep 5 '24

Just gonna sneak myself into this blog - OSD600 #1

#webdev #opensource #learning #beginners

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

Sep 4 '24

When should I use JWTs?

#webdev #security #opensource #identity

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 29 '24

The Art of Effective Open Source Contribution

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

7 min read

Sep 4 '24

Object.assign() usage in Zustand's source code.

#javascript #opensource #zustand #react

3 min read

Sep 4 '24

Ozan — another Open source knowledge base built on Flutter

#flutter #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Sep 4 '24

Get to know me

#softwareengineering #introduction #seneca #opensource

3 min read

Palomino for Logto

Sep 3 '24

Bring your own sign-in UI to Logto Cloud

#webdev #identity #opensource #ui

5 min read

Aug 30 '24

My first post - Hi, dev.to

#devtools #opensource #powerfuldevs #devto

1 min read

Nixys

Aug 1 '24

nxs-marketplace-terraform: love and use it

#devops #googlecloud #terraform #opensource

8 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Aug 14 '24

Interview with Johans Justs Eris, Tauri Developer for Blenderbase at PhysicalAddons

#tauri #rust #opensource #cloud

1 min read

Lulu

Aug 14 '24

SafeLine: The No.1 Free and Open-Source Next-Gen Intelligent WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #waf

4 min read

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