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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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Jun 29 '23

Analyzing and Editing Ruby Source Code in Bullet Train

#ruby #rails #webdev #opensource

7 min read

Jun 29 '23

Where I've Been

#opensource #burnout

2 min read

Jun 29 '23

A small contribution is still very valuable

#opensource #beginners #programming #rust

3 min read

Jun 29 '23

Real Time Mobile UI Inspector - Alternative with Appium Inspector

#mobile #ui #qa #opensource

4 min read

DR

Jun 29 '23

Post-Vacation Pull Request

#github #opensource #programming

1 min read

Karan Kajla for Warrant

Jun 28 '23

Why Google Zanzibar Shines at Building Authorization

#authorization #opensource #architecture #cybersecurity

7 min read

Felix

Jun 29 '23

Selefra-How to Read Code to Provide for Rule Use

#opensource #aws #devops #policyascode

3 min read

pankrok

May 30 '23

OneBB Headless Forum refactoring

#vue #opensource #typescript #beginners

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi

Jun 27 '23

Flowbite Icons - 430+ free and open-source SVG icons for Tailwind CSS and Figma

#showdev #flowbite #tailwindcss #opensource

3 min read

Sebastian Fritsch

Jun 28 '23

VSCode on iPad Pro with code-server self-hosted

#news #opensource #vscode #webdev

3 min read

Jun 28 '23

How to get started with open source contribution?

#opensource #beginners #programming

1 min read

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 28 '23

Build an Inventory Management App for Free [VIDEO]

#tutorial #beginners #lowcode #opensource

10 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Jun 28 '23

Dive into the world of Markus Staab, a passionate web developer, and Open Source contributor 🔥

#webdev #opensource #testing

1 min read

JackTT

Jun 28 '23

Kafka dump: backup, restore, stream,...

#go #opensource

3 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Jun 19 '23

5 React Libraries to Level Up your Projects in 2023

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

6 min read

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