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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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Krestianstvo Electric Lazy Reflector for Croquet VM

#javascript #clojure #webdev #opensource

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Rio: WebApps in pure Python. No JavaScript, HTML and CSS needed!

#python #datascience #opensource

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#security #devops #opensource #learning

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May 17 '24

10+ Best Open Source Icon Libraries in 2026

#opensource #javascript #css #frontend

6 min read

May 18 '24

I revived TypeScript RPC framework for WebSocket (+NestJS) and Worker protocols from 8 years ago.

#opensource #typescript #nestjs #network

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May 19 '24

All about OpenNotas - What is it?

#opennotas #opensource #notetalking

5 min read

Bap

May 17 '24

5 trends in OS development

#webdev #programming #opensource #learning

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Jake Page for Distr

May 14 '24

RabbitMQ on Kubernetes

#devops #rabbitmq #kubernetes #opensource

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Luis Villa for Tidelift

Apr 15 '24

Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?

#opensource #gpl #vizio

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Apr 28 '24

Connecting and Collaborating in Open Source: A Beginner's Guide

#opensource #beginners #github

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May 18 '24

Improve your CI output.

#php #opensource #codequality

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 13 '24

Maintainer Monday

#opensource #community

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May 18 '24

Introducing dirb_rust: A High-Performance URL and Port Scanner

#vulnerabilities #opensource #testing #rust

2 min read

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May 18 '24

Integration Testing with Node.js

#webdev #typescript #integrationtest #opensource

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Claradev32

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Advanced Topics in E2E Testing Introduction

#webdev #testing #testdev #opensource

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