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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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Daniel J. Saldaña

Nov 15 '24

Goliath Dashboard - Shield Module Demo

#opensource #opentofu #terraform #astro

1 min read

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Antonio

Nov 15 '24

Litlyx Update! After reaching 760+ stars and 45 paying clients!

#opensource #development #webdev

2 min read

Carrie

Nov 15 '24

What's New in Open Source WAF, SafeLine V7.2.3?

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

1 min read

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Jesse Williams for Jozu

Nov 13 '24

20 Open Source Tools I Recommend to Build, Share, and Run AI Projects

#beginners #ai #opensource #machinelearning

14 min read

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Nov 15 '24

Milvus Adventures November 15, 2024

#opensource #milvus #vectordatabase #nlp

3 min read

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Nov 15 '24

Developer Icons: an awesome open-source library for free tech logos

#opensource #react #astro #webdev

3 min read

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⚡ 🚀 Top 10 Trending GitHub Repositories, November, Week 2 2024 🔥

#github #opensource #beginners #webdev

3 min read

Carrie

Nov 4 '24

What is an Upstream Server

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

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Ricardo Sueiras

Nov 15 '24

Speak at FOSDEM 2025

#opensource

1 min read

Jan 22

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#linux #networking #opensource #tutorial

17 min read

Nov 15 '24

An Open-Source Platform for Multi-Agent AI Orchestration

#ai #python #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 11 '24

✨ From Contributor to Core Project Maintainer: My Open Source Journey ✨

#discuss #hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Nov 14 '24

Why I created a new UUID package for Node.js

#javascript #typescript #opensource #node

2 min read

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Ben Link

Nov 14 '24

The Adventures of Blink S2e10: Artificially Intelligent Hangman (Season Finale!)

#ai #docker #opensource #python

8 min read

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Nov 14 '24

Docker Commands - Part 1

#docker #opensource #devops #cloud

7 min read

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