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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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#career #devrel #writing #opensource

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How to Update SSL Certificate in SafeLine WAF through a File

#opensource #cybersecurity #ssl #webdev

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Tib

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Habemus Perl Logo!

#news #perl #logo #opensource

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Getting Started with Git and GitHub: A Beginner's Guide

#git #github #beginners #opensource

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#design #css #tutorial #opensource

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#aws #cloud #devops #opensource

1 min read

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GitHub Unwrapped 2024: recap 🧢

#github #opensource #programming #productivity

2 min read

Elufioye Gboyega michael

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What is Observability?

#opensource #metrics #prometheus #observability

3 min read

Chen Debra

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The Annual Question: Bugs Caused by Week-Based Year Formatting in Java

#java #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #github

2 min read

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Maintenance mode check in Next.js middleware.ts

#opensource #nextjs #vercel

4 min read

Gittech

Jan 2 '25

☃️ Jan 2, 2025: Top 40+ GitHub Finds – Highlighting Tools and Innovations for Developers

#top7 #github #opensource

15 min read

Gurjeet Singh Virdee

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My Open Source Journey: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Collaboration and Growth

#opensource #webdev #programming #beginners

3 min read

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The Ultimate Guide for Beginners: Navigating Git and GitHub in the World of Tech

#github #git #opensource #beginners

5 min read

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My 2024 Unwrap (of course, it's not a must-read)

#programming #learning #opensource #github

5 min read

Arindam Majumder

Dec 9 '24

Top 5 Open Source Projects You Must Explore Before 2025

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

8 min read

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