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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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James Robertson

Sep 5 '24

Using my side project to get noticed in this brutal job market

#career #frontend #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Sep 15 '24

Radix UI for Angular is Finally Available!

#angular #radixui #opensource #react

1 min read

Samuel Kinuthia

Sep 16 '24

Mastering Monorepos with Lerna: A Comprehensive Guide

#javascript #tutorial #react #opensource

5 min read

Lulu

Sep 5 '24

Achieving Multi-WAF Protection and Failover Using SafeLine WAF

#webdev #devops #opensource #cybersecurity

3 min read

Samuel Kinuthia

Sep 16 '24

Mastering Lerna: A Guide to Managing JavaScript Monorepos

#javascript #opensource #beginners #node

5 min read

Sep 16 '24

NPkill - Let's get rid of unused node_modules

#javascript #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Sep 15 '24

Social network X (Twitter) was banned in Brazil and is it possible to have new links?

#discuss #twitter #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Ramzi Issiakhem

Sep 4 '24

Build with Me Larachat: the realtime chat package for Laravel

#opensource #webdev #laravel #devjournal

2 min read

V

Sep 15 '24

Develop Responsive Apps easily with Responsively App

#opensource #frontend #productivity #webdev

4 min read

Sep 15 '24

Building a bill splitting app - splitBhai (1/n) as a side project

#bills #opensource #sideprojects #splitbills

4 min read

Sep 13 '24

10 upcoming Open-Source events you can not miss!! 🦚

#opensource #productivity #github #learning

9 min read

Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

Sep 14 '24

Swift Deployments: Are they Swift or Recklessly Rushed?

#swift #devops #opensource #analytics

11 min read

Chris Arakelian

Sep 15 '24

🚀 Rethink Your Components With UI Slice.

#react #nextjs #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Abhimanyu Sharma

Sep 15 '24

kubewall : A User-Friendly Kubernetes GUI Dashboard

#kubernetes #devops #go #opensource

3 min read

Sep 3 '24

I'm Joining Sentry

#sentry #solidjs #opensource

2 min read

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