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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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Apr 1 '19

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#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Onyebueke Emmanuel

Apr 1 '19

#Its cool to always receive, also Contribute

#os #javascript #python #opensource

1 min read

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Mar 30 '19

Answered: What the Heck is Code Golf? ⛳

#discuss #javascript #opensource #codegolf

4 min read

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Mar 25 '19

Code Editor Wars

#vscode #opensource #microsoft

6 min read

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Mar 27 '19

How did we make open source CI better?

#opensource #devops #webdev

4 min read

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Mar 28 '19

There are plenty of good reasons to do open source for free

#opensource #career

4 min read

Mar 29 '19

Introducing contributors-img: Keep contributors in README.md

#showdev #opensource #github #tools

1 min read

林子篆

Mar 30 '19

on -- A CLI tool helps you work on certain context

#showdev #go #opensource

3 min read

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Alexandre Faria

Mar 29 '19

Benefits of the Open Source mindset

#opensource #innersource #developer

5 min read

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Adi Polak for Microsoft Azure

Mar 25 '19

What is TensorFrames? TensorFlow + Apache Spark

#opensource #beginners #tensorflow #apachespark

9 min read

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Doni

Mar 27 '19

Do you know who really owns your code?

#beginners #webdev #career #opensource

2 min read

Mar 28 '19

Learn Fast by Contributing to an Open Source Project

#challenge #opensource #aspnet #webdev

1 min read

Mohammed Ismail Ansari

Mar 28 '19

12 Reasons why I spend time on open-source software

#opensource #github #developers #life

5 min read

Mar 25 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (March 25th edition)

#discuss #contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

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Mar 27 '19

Charge, an opinionated, zero-config static site generator

#react #opensource #static #staticsites

1 min read

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