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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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Amir Angel

Mar 4 '24

Encrypted Note Editor App In React Native

#reactnative #richtext #editor #opensource

8 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 26 '24

Exploring Supabase, the Open Source Backend for Developers

#opensource #backend #baas

3 min read

SREY

Mar 4 '24

Product That I could never Publish, Unveiling Lessons from my failed attempts✨

#product #productengineering #opensource #programming

7 min read

Mar 4 '24

6 Months Using Neovim: A Review

#developer #vim #productivity #opensource

8 min read

Mar 4 '24

Taking over maintenance of Perl distribution Date::Holidays::ES and releasing version 0.03

#perl #opensource #release

2 min read

Marine for Taipy

Feb 27 '24

How To Create an AI Photo App with Python

#python #tutorial #opensource #coding

7 min read

Mar 4 '24

How to setup your own ChatGPT with OpenLLaMA

#ia #llm #chatgpt #opensource

1 min read

Muhammadh Ahzem

Mar 4 '24

How Microsoft Learn can help you grow your skills

#microsoft #microsoftlearn #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15 '24

Don't fix anything — cultivate acceptance instead: bugs in games that have become features

#programming #gamedev #opensource

10 min read

Mar 4 '24

Let's check Blender

#cpp #programming #opensource

16 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 27 '24

Would you use an open source personal finance app?

#discuss #opensource

3 min read

Mar 3 '24

clsx for Rails views

#rails #ruby #css #opensource

2 min read

Henrique Cavarsan

Mar 4 '24

🔥 Enhance Your Kubernetes Tools with KFtray 0.8.0's Latest Features

#kubernetes #opensource #development #kubectl

2 min read

Bap

Mar 1 '24

Here are the open-source startups YC invested in 2024

#programming #productivity #opensource #learning

5 min read

Rudransh Bhardwaj

Mar 3 '24

Hey Devs , Lets code something usefull....

#opensource #programming #beginners

1 min read

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