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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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GeroZayas

Jul 23 '24

🗣️ OpenAI Language Learning Assistant UPDATE

#openai #python #opensource #cli

1 min read

Atsushi

Jun 19 '24

Created a plugin to display embedded YouTube URLs in GROWI

#growi #opensource #plugin #typescript

3 min read

Jul 22 '24

Simplify PostgreSQL Deployments with Kubernetes & GitOps (with Crunchy Data Operator)

#kubernetes #postgres #devops #opensource

6 min read

BestCodes

Jul 21 '24

Introducing CodeQuill: Your Free, Local Code Snippet Manager

#opensource #webdev #database #productivity

2 min read

Lulu

Jul 22 '24

Protect Your Web Application: A Tutorial Guide to Using SafeLine WAF

#tutorial #opensource #cybersecurity #friewall

3 min read

keploy

Jun 18 '24

Understanding White Box Testing: An In-Depth Exploration

#box #opensource #aitools #testing

3 min read

Jul 22 '24

Runtime Log Level Change using Golang & GoFr

#opensource #go #backend #webdev

4 min read

Christian Birego

Jun 18 '24

Mon expérience de stage chez Kali Academy Un baptême dans l'open source

#webdev #linux #opensource #wiki

3 min read

Aryan Kargwal for Tune AI

Jul 22 '24

Llama Guard, AAAL Pt.3

#llama #llm #opensource #developer

2 min read

Jul 22 '24

The Great Fall: Decoding the Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage of July 2024

#crowdstrike #microsoft #azure #opensource

3 min read

Jul 22 '24

to makers and coders of all things cool!

#beginners #opensource #learning #javascript

1 min read

NocoBase

Jul 22 '24

Case Study: Energy company Turcomp, empowers agile and secure development with NocoBase

#lowcode #github #opensource #nocode

3 min read

Brian King for Couchbase

Jul 5 '24

Announcing General Availability of the C++ SDK for Couchbase

#c #couchbase #sdk #opensource

6 min read

Fortune

Jul 21 '24

"From Concept to Code: Building a Reminder App with Python"

#programming #python #devops #opensource

2 min read

Idowu Omisola for TestMu AI

Jul 21 '24

How To Press Enter Without WebElement In Selenium Python

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #selenium

26 min read

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