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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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Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Jun 15 '20

Software licensing: All about multi-licensing

#showdev #opensource #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Ali Abbas

Jun 14 '20

Should DEV.to have a feature like Quora ?

#discuss #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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0xkniraj

Jun 15 '20

GSoC 20: Week 2

#python #opensource #gsoc

3 min read

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Adrian Matei for Codever

Jun 15 '20

Simple IntelliJ plugin example to help me bookmark code

#productivity #programming #beginners #opensource

9 min read

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Tieg Zaharia for Tidelift

Jun 11 '20

The state of package signing across package managers

#javascript #python #opensource #java

8 min read

Jun 14 '20

Introducing Mintoo - The Assistant for Linux Mint

#linux #mint #desklet #opensource

1 min read

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Kirill Vasiltsov

Jun 13 '20

Contributing to Gatsby - Issue #21311

#javascript #opensource #gatsby #react

6 min read

Jun 16 '20

Go notes (Concurrency) 🇬🇧

#development #opensource #go #tutorial

11 min read

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Jun 12 '20

Git Rebase Is Not The Devil

#github #git #opensource

2 min read

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Jun 13 '20

What is Ingress Controller in Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #devops #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Jun 12 '20

Signature is unknown trust - Arch Linux on VBox

#linux #opensource

2 min read

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Jim Medlock for Chingu

Jun 11 '20

Contribute to the Chingu Resource List

#codenewbie #programming #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Mensah Alkebu-Lan for Universal Equations

Jun 11 '20

Introduction to TensorFlow

#opensource #tensorflow #python #machinelearning

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 8 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 23

#opensource #aws

16 min read

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manish srivastava

Jun 10 '20

FM RADIO : Let's Create our own using Ubuntu & Docker. ( Yes !!! Possible in 10 Mins)

#showdev #linux #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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