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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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Mr F.

Dec 15 '19

Awesome Terminal upgrades - Part Five: Awesome and productive command line tools

#opensource #productivity #zsh #bash

2 min read

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Dec 15 '19

The Radical JavaScript Contextmenu

#opensource #javascript #github #coding

3 min read

Mr F.

Dec 15 '19

Awesome Terminal upgrades - Part Four: Make your your macOS terminal look slick

#opensource #productivity #zsh #bash

2 min read

Mr F.

Dec 15 '19

Awesome Terminal upgrades - Part Two: Upgrade and use a newer version of ZSH on macOS

#opensource #productivity #zsh #bash

2 min read

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Shahriar Rahman Rubayet

Dec 15 '19

Getting Referrals at big tech companies

#career #opensource #github

1 min read

Mr F.

Dec 15 '19

Awesome Terminal upgrades - Part One: Upgrade and use a newer version of BASH on macOS

#opensource #productivity #zsh #bash

2 min read

Seniru Pasan Indira

Dec 13 '19

Badges for your projects

#opensource #github #badges

3 min read

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Autumn

Dec 7 '19

How To Get Any Job You Want - A Guide To Employability Skills Edition 2

#showdev #career #beginners #opensource

144 min read

Dec 15 '19

How to identify and fix open-source vulnerabilities

#opensource #vulnerabilities #security #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

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Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Dec 12 '19

Open Source Culture Company Handbooks

#opensource #culture #reference

1 min read

Welly

Dec 11 '19

✨ A cool way to handle image lazy-loading, optimizing, UX with React.js

#react #opensource #img #lazy

1 min read

Jakob Attkinson

Dec 9 '19

From piracy to open-source: my story

#opensource #computerscience #motivation

4 min read

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Benjamin Petetot for Zenika

Dec 10 '19

Understanding software licenses

#opensource #license #tutorial #beginners

5 min read

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Helad

Dec 10 '19

A Steady revenue stream from open source projects?

#opensource #monetization

1 min read

Dec 11 '19

Pope.cr: Micro templating engine for strings only. (Crystal version of Pope.js)

#crystal #opensource #strings #github

1 min read

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