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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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The Apostrophe Team for Apostrophe

Feb 16 '24

Introducing the Apostrophe / Astro Integration

#webdev #astro #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Victor Isaac Oshimua

Feb 16 '24

Why You Shouldn't Contribute To Open Source

#discuss #opensource #programming #career

2 min read

Michael M.

Feb 16 '24

Exploring Alternatives: Are There Better Options Than JSON?

#webdev #protobuf #messagepack #opensource

4 min read

Dominic Magnifico

Feb 12 '24

Why Everyone Hates WordPress

#discuss #webdev #wordpress #opensource

4 min read

Makar

Feb 16 '24

Your reading list has just got better

#forem #opensource

1 min read

Glenn

Feb 16 '24

Inline pseudo: A Weekend Experiment in Inline Pseudo-Class Styling

#webdev #css #tailwindcss #opensource

2 min read

Feb 16 '24

GitHub: The Hub of Collaboration

#github #git #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Guillaume Lagrange

Feb 14 '24

Transitioning From PyTorch to Burn

#deeplearning #rust #opensource #python

26 min read

Nathan Tarbert for Winglang

Feb 7 '24

The Developer's Toolkit: Your Essential Open-Source DevTools

#opensource #webdev #programming #productivity

2 min read

Nik L. for SuprSend

Feb 15 '24

The Only Guide To Slack Mrkdwn (not markdown) Formatting w Codes

#markdown #opensource #javascript #tutorial

6 min read

Repro Dev

Feb 16 '24

Simplify your OpenSSL CSR Requests with PowerCSR GUI Tool

#programming #opensource #coding #webdev

4 min read

Cristiano Lemes

Feb 15 '24

Oh My Posh: O Oh My Zsh do Windows

#devops #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 10 '24

ResearchHub: The GitHub of Scientific Research

#opensource #cryptocurrency #data

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 14 '24

Modernizing File Management with Spacedrive – Is it worth it?

#opensource #productivity

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 9 '24

What are your favorite open source games?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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