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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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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Dec 11 '24

🔥Introducing the HMPL VS Code Extension

#webdev #opensource #vscode #typescript

3 min read

Schrödinger Hat

Dec 11 '24

ImageGoNord: Balancing Open Source Freedom with Ethical Challenges

#discuss #opensource #ethics #python

5 min read

Dec 11 '24

Comparison of the middleware implementation between Supabase Auth documentation and the nextjs-stripe-supabase.

#opensource #nextjs #supabase #stripe

5 min read

Dec 11 '24

"Exploring the Open-Source Cloud Revolution: Why OpenStack is the Future"

#opensource #openstack #cloud

4 min read

keploy

Dec 11 '24

Understanding Beta Testing: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Process, Benefits, and Challenges

#webdev #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Dmitrii

Dec 11 '24

Open Source LLMOps LangSmith Alternatives: LangFuse vs. Lunary.ai

#ai #devops #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Dec 11 '24

Looking for some feedback on my team's new open-source secrets vault project.

#discuss #opensource #programming #security

1 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Dec 10 '24

OSD Final Chapter: Part 3

#opensource #javafx #java #github

3 min read

Dec 10 '24

Want a Remote Internship Working on Free Software?

#opensource #internship #javascript #outreachy

3 min read

Dec 10 '24

From Zero to Observability: Your first steps sending OpenTelemetry data to an Observability backend

#opensource #kubernetes #observability #opentelemetry

7 min read

Dec 10 '24

Building Glide: A Modern E-commerce Platform with Angular 17 and .NET 8

#webdev #angular #dotnet #opensource

3 min read

Uday Rana

Dec 10 '24

My Goals In Working On Open Source

#opensource

2 min read

Dec 10 '24

Migrating from DIY ELK to a full SaaS platform

#opensource #observability #saas

4 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Dec 9 '24

Encore Launch Week Day 1: Custom Middleware

#typescript #opensource #javascript #backend

2 min read

Tania Chakraborty

Dec 9 '24

🌐 AI Agents Are Like Fish Tanks 🐠

#discuss #ai #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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