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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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Biggest lesson learned from Nodejs Documentary

#node #opensource #javascript #backenddevelopment

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Juraj for Cyclops UI

Mar 26 '24

Kubernetes Through the Developer's Perspective

#kubernetes #opensource #yaml #devops

5 min read

Stylianos Gakis

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#android #androiddev #opensource #kotlin

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Patrice Kalwira

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Comprendre l'open source : historique et importance

#opensource #community #learning

7 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

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#api #opensource #vue #selfhost

3 min read

Vedant Khairnar for Hyperswitch

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RFC 003: Quantum Entangled Payment Methods

#opensource #rust #payments #hiring

3 min read

XIAOXU CHANG for ByteDance Open Source

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#kubernetes #opensource #cloud

7 min read

Tung Leo

Apr 7 '24

The AWS Hub ☁️ Your new AWS learning resources

#aws #devops #opensource #learning

8 min read

Rizmy Abdulla 🎖️

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#javascript #webdev #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Taipy

Mar 14 '24

All the tools I need to build a perfect AI app.

#ai #programming #opensource #python

25 min read

Apr 28 '24

Building a Skin Care Assistant with Lyzr Automata

#ai #opensource #lyzr #skincare

4 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Mar 31 '24

Iterating on Web Handlers Implementation

#opensource #webdev #react #experiment

3 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Mar 31 '24

ChatCraft Adventures Week #11, Vite Precaching, Keyboard Shortcuts, Nomnoml Rendering

#opensource #webdev

4 min read

Mar 31 '24

Visualizing Service Maps with Static Analysis

#opensource #codereview #codequality

1 min read

Schalk Neethling

Mar 29 '24

Why Do I Love Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #community

6 min read

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