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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.

submission guidelines

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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Cezzaine Zaher for Xata

Apr 10 '24

Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig

#database #postgres #opensource #zig

10 min read

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Tom

Mar 8 '24

Seeking Developer Feedback: A New Platform for Tech Support and Open Source Funding

#discuss #webdev #beginners #opensource

7 min read

lauren rae hanford for Tidelift

Apr 9 '24

The ROI of paying open source maintainers (in light of the xz utils backdoor)

#opensource #xz #security

7 min read

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Schalk Neethling

Apr 10 '24

HTML: A Comprehensive Guide - Chapter One

#html #webdev #beginners #opensource

10 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Apr 9 '24

How to Bring Your Own Domain in SaaS Platforms?

#programming #tutorial #devops #opensource

6 min read

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Clelia (Astra) Bertelli

Apr 9 '24

everything-rag: LLMs with your data, locally

#ai #opensource #docker #rag

2 min read

Apr 9 '24

Gorabbit: RabbitMQ supercharged for Go Applications

#go #rabbitmq #opensource #mqtt

7 min read

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Michelle Duke for GitHub

Apr 8 '24

Release Radar • March 2024 Edition

#news #github #opensource #community

5 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Apr 5 '24

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 66)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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Schalk Neethling

Apr 8 '24

12 Free Courses To Help You Develop More Secure Software - Shift Security Left

#security #learning #opensource

6 min read

Cover image for My Journey Building Vidya: From Idea to Open Source

Mar 19 '24

My Journey Building Vidya: From Idea to Open Source

#flutter #opensource #android #programming

2 min read

Cover image for Lessons from open-source: Use window.trustedTypes to prevent DOM XSS.

Apr 8 '24

Lessons from open-source: Use window.trustedTypes to prevent DOM XSS.

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #react

3 min read

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Devs Daddy

Apr 8 '24

Unity UI Framework

#unity3d #opensource #gamedev #programming

2 min read

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Giuliano Bellini

Apr 8 '24

Sniffnet 1.3 released!

#news #rust #opensource #networking

1 min read

Apr 8 '24

Building User Story & Use Case Generator using Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #api #development

7 min read

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