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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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Apr 6 '24

Clawject: Simplifying Dependency Injection in TypeScript

#typescript #node #opensource #solidprinciples

4 min read

Apr 4 '24

macOS vs Ubuntu: GitHub Actions Runners

#opensource #githubactions #github #os

2 min read

Apr 5 '24

Show Feed to ChatCraft users

#opensource #ai #feed #cloudflarechallenge

2 min read

shrey vijayvargiya

Apr 6 '24

What is an Abstract Syntax Tree in Programming?

#javascript #programming #opensource #learning

6 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Apr 6 '24

ChatCraft Adventures #12, Slash Commands

#opensource #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Meteor Software for Meteor

Apr 5 '24

What's New at Meteor: Beta Releases, Community Tutorials, and More

#webdev #opensource #meteor #community

2 min read

Rudransh Bhardwaj

Apr 5 '24

Golang >>> Rust 🔥[Prediction]

#go #rust #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

Apr 5 '24

Agent Cloud vs CrewAI

#webdev #opensource #openai #rag

7 min read

Dmitry Romanoff

Apr 5 '24

Getting error when starting Rancher Desktop on Mac.

#devops #docker #opensource #howto

1 min read

Asm Raihan

Apr 5 '24

🔐 Lucia Auth: A Flexible Open Source Authentication Library for the JavaScript Ecosystem! 🔐

#webdev #opensource #luciaauth #security

2 min read

Cezzaine Zaher for Xata

Apr 5 '24

Powering up schema migrations with pgroll

#database #postgres #opensource

6 min read

Apr 5 '24

[Question] Would you contribute more to open-source if companies could pay you the equivalent of a freelancer’s salary?

#discuss #opensource #freelance #programming

1 min read

Jake Page for Distr

Apr 2 '24

I built a top-tier Discord server for Open Source.

#productivity #opensource #tutorial #beginners

8 min read

Diallo Mamadou Pathé

Apr 5 '24

Demystifying Open Source Contribution: A Beginner's Guide

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #coding #tips

2 min read

Schalk Neethling

Apr 4 '24

Building a Managed Service Provider Business With Open Source

#opensource #tools

3 min read

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