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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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Ivan Cordoba for Opire

Aug 1 '24

The Secret to Business Success: Embracing Open Source

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #startup #productivity

9 min read

Aug 1 '24

Introducing UnoPIM: The Open-Source PIM Solution for Modern Businesses

#opensource #pim #laravel #php

2 min read

Jul 22 '24

20 Super Useful CSS Animation Libraries

#css #webdev #opensource #frontend

3 min read

Aug 1 '24

How to Create PostgreSQL Custom Builds and RPM Packages

#opensource #database #postgressql #linux

2 min read

keploy

Jun 28 '24

Regression Testing: Ensuring Stability and Reliability in Software Development

#testing #ai #opensource #api

4 min read

Trang Pham Quynh

Aug 1 '24

🌟 Build Your Own AI Tools with the AI Builder Kit! 🌟

#opensource #ai #productivity #programming

1 min read

Jul 31 '24

Convert a string to camelCase using this function in Javascript.

#javascript #supabase #opensource #camelcase

3 min read

Paschal Johnpaul

Jun 27 '24

Backend Discoveries: Turning Roadblocks into Learning

#webdev #beginners #opensource #learning

3 min read

Jul 31 '24

Stop drawing ERD, but just auto-generate by `prisma-markdown`

#opensource #prisma #database #architecture

5 min read

Jun 27 '24

My First Contribution to Open Source

#csharp #github #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

Jul 31 '24

Hoppscotch v2024.7.0: JUnit Reports, User management API & more..

#opensource #api #ai #cli

2 min read

NocoBase

Jul 30 '24

The Ultimate Guide to Awesome Self-Hosted Solutions

#selfhosted #lowcode #opensource #github

8 min read

keploy

Jul 31 '24

The Essentials of Automated Unit Testing

#testing #webdev #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jul 31 '24

🚀Announcing conjure_enum - a C++20 enum and typename reflection Library

#cpp #programming #opensource #github

2 min read

Jul 31 '24

An In-depth Analysis of Path Traversal Vulnerability: Dirty Stream Attack

#news #security #cybersecurity #opensource

1 min read

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