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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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Sep 20 '23

.NET Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks📒 - Multiple programming languages 💻

#news #dotnet #programming #opensource

3 min read

Niklas for Rig.dev

Sep 18 '23

The 5 Biggest Risks and Rewards of Adopting Kubernetes

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #development

9 min read

Ron Northcutt for Appsmith

Sep 19 '23

The Evolution of Git: A Dive Into Tech History

#discuss #git #linux #opensource

7 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Sep 17 '23

Let's build WordPress for React together!

#webdev #react #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Sep 18 '23

[Typia] I made Protocol Buffer library of TypeScript, easiest in the world

#typescript #protobuf #programming #opensource

9 min read

Niklas for Rig.dev

Sep 13 '23

10 Open Source Alternatives To Proprietary Software

#opensource #webdev #startup #productivity

16 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 18 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #174

#opensource #aws

17 min read

John McBride for OpenSauced

Sep 14 '23

How we made our Go microservice 24x faster

#go #opensource #programming #postgres

7 min read

stungnet

Sep 17 '23

Why Every Developer Should Consider the Linux & Neovim Leap

#tutorial #beginners #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Alexander Clemens

Sep 19 '23

Before I Die Code: Week 5 Highlights and Shoutouts to Our Contributors from this week

#opensource #beginners #react #webdev

2 min read

Muhammad Tayyab Sheikh

Sep 19 '23

JIRA vs. Plane: A Comprehensive Comparison for the Developer Community

#tooling #management #opensource #jira

3 min read

Cample.js

Sep 19 '23

How does a non-keyed implementation differ from keys in javascript frameworks?

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mary

Sep 18 '23

Pest-Driven Development: Testing Routes For Authenticated Users in Laravel Jetstream

#laravel #pest #testing #opensource

8 min read

Sep 19 '23

Release 1.0 - Text to Html Converter

#webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Christine Belzie

Sep 19 '23

Taming My First Pull Request to FreeCodeCamp

#opensource #learning #100daysofoss

5 min read

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