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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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Sm0ke

Jul 23 '23

Open-Source & FREE Site Builder | Simpllo

#pagebuilder #websitebuilder #devtool #opensource

3 min read

Aug 3 '23

What's taking so long with Pidgin 3...

#opensource #programming

5 min read

Jul 26 '23

Building Next.js app in 7 different languages 🇫🇷 🇩🇪🇧🇷 with i18n. Open Source.

#translations #opensource #react

3 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Aug 2 '23

My Journey in Open Source - set-interval-by-id

#javascript #typescript #github #opensource

1 min read

Vladimir Mihailenco for Uptrace

Aug 2 '23

Monitoring Spring Boot with OpenTelemetry

#monitoring #springboot #java #opensource

4 min read

Amy Liu

Aug 2 '23

What are some Open Source Alternatives that people need to know about?

#discuss #opensource #help #programming

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 31 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #167

#opensource #aws

20 min read

Aug 1 '23

🌟OpenCV🎨the Magic of Images✨Part: 1

#python #github #opensource #opencv

1 min read

OGBONNA SUNDAY for OpenSauced

Jul 5 '23

How I Got Hired Contributing to open source projects

#opensource #webdev #javascript #career

4 min read

Jul 29 '23

[Typia] Hidden Class Optimization of v8 Engine

#typescript #javascript #opensource #computerscience

5 min read

Christina Garofalo for Plank

Jul 31 '23

My Favourite WordPress Plugins as a Developer

#wordpress #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Alex Inkin

Jul 2 '23

Maskito: a Holy Grail of input masking

#webdev #javascript #frontend #opensource

5 min read

Vaunt

Aug 1 '23

Looking Behind the Source Code

#beginners #opensource #devrel #community

10 min read

Jul 21 '23

Why Linux Mint is the best Linux distribution

#linux #opensource

7 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

Jul 31 '23

Streamline your testing workflow with HOPPSCOTCH CLI 🛸

#api #testing #opensource #cli

4 min read

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