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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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Repro Dev

Feb 22 '24

Is the reign of Esxi as the Hypervisor of choice for learning at home, virtually over?

#discuss #virtualmachine #opensource

6 min read

DASWU

Jan 19 '24

South Korea's No.1 Search Engine Chose JuiceFS over Alluxio for AI Storage

#ai #opensource

18 min read

Yacine Si Tayeb

Feb 22 '24

Delving Deeper: Enriching Microservices with Golang with CloudWeGo

#programming #go #microservices #opensource

4 min read

Olaoluwa Odewale

Feb 22 '24

SnipeNow

#android #kotlin #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

sriram

Feb 22 '24

From Learning to Contributing: Navigating the Path of Programming to Open Source Success

#beginners #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Schalk Neethling

Feb 21 '24

What is SAML And Why You Should Care

#saml #webdev #opensource #security

7 min read

Ege Aytin for Permify

Feb 21 '24

Top 6 Open Source Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions For Enterprises

#webdev #programming #opensource #security

9 min read

Feb 21 '24

How I build a YouTube Video Player with ReactJS: Add chapters to the video

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

9 min read

Scofield Idehen

Feb 21 '24

Reading and Writing Files in Python (Text Files & CSV)

#python #beginners #programming #opensource

5 min read

Prosper Otemuyiwa for novu

Feb 21 '24

Translate your App's Notification content to different languages using i18n.

#javascript #programming #opensource #notification

3 min read

Repro Dev

Feb 18 '24

Chocolatey: The Easiest Way to Install and Manage Windows Software

#automation #tutorial #codenewbie #opensource

14 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 15 '24

What do you use for a second brain?

#opensource #productivity

4 min read

Eduardo Messuti for StatusPal

Feb 20 '24

8 Best Free & Open Source Status Page Alternatives in 2025

#devops #opensource #incidentmanagement #statuspage

10 min read

Chuck Carpenter

Feb 20 '24

A Tale of Frameworks: Our Quirky Quest from Next.js to Redwood.js

#javascript #opensource

2 min read

Bap

Feb 16 '24

Alternatives to Auth0 we are most excited about in 2024

#opensource #github #productivity #devops

4 min read

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