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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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Yuri for Supabase

Apr 17 '24

Supabase Auth now supports Anonymous Sign-ins

#webdev #programming #opensource #softwaredevelopment

4 min read

Apr 23 '24

Building NL2MongoDB with Lyzr SDK

#ai #lyzr #mongodb #opensource

4 min read

Apr 22 '24

Homelab Adventures: Crafting a Personal Tech Playground

#devops #homelab #opensource #softwaredevelopment

24 min read

Apr 15 '24

🔥 6 Open-source Libraries You Must Know in 2024 🪄🔥

#webdev #opensource #javascript #programming

7 min read

Jen Wike Huger for OpenProject

Apr 22 '24

OpenProject’s COO on remote work, AI, and a love for customers

#productivity #opensource #remote

4 min read

Sebastian Christopher

Apr 17 '24

The XZ attack and timeline

#news #linux #opensource #security

6 min read

Jagerente

Apr 11 '24

Why should you try GoCfg or yet another Go config manager

#go #opensource #github

6 min read

Apr 22 '24

GitHub Sponsor Sindre Sorhus, author of awesome lists, npm packages, and iPhone Apps

#github #opensource #javascript #career

2 min read

Apr 22 '24

One LLaMa to rule them all

#ai #llm #opensource

3 min read

Apr 22 '24

Native Custom video Player Feature in kotlin Like youtube.

#android #kotlin #opensource

1 min read

Samuel-Zacharie FAURE

Apr 19 '24

💡What contributing to open-source is, and what it isn't.

#career #opensource #beginners #programming

5 min read

Om singh

Mar 19 '24

Open Source Ascendant: The Transformation of Software Development in 2024

#opensource #web #webdev #developer

2 min read

6abd

Apr 20 '24

How my open source tool got 100 stars in 4 days!

#python #cryptocurrency #cybersecurity #opensource

3 min read

Bap

Apr 19 '24

Your weekly discovery of new open-source tools ⚒️👇

#discuss #opensource #programming #productivity

4 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 19 '24

Supabase Security Advisor & Performance Advisor

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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