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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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Jamie Read

Aug 21 '17

Hazel Networking

#showdev #networking #dotnet #opensource

2 min read

Jul 2 '20

Don't be a meanie when contributing to open source

#opensource #github

3 min read

Jordan Eisenburger

Aug 5 '20

Feasibility report for implementing PWA Studio v7.0.0

#javascript #opensource

4 min read

Taylor Singletary

Mar 16 '18

The life, death, and resurrection of my dear friend Charlie proxy

#shortfiction #opensource #fanfiction

2 min read

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WebSailors

Jun 25 '20

5 Reasons why Open-Source worth it

#opensource #webdev

4 min read

Aug 7 '17

Necessity is the Mother of Adoption

#opensource #bleedingedge #trends

3 min read

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Jul 23 '20

Turn Your Static Website Into a Web App in Minutes With Remake, An Open Source Framework

#opensource #webdev #frontend #code

3 min read

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Bobby Priambodo

Aug 3 '17

Why I dislike chat-based platforms for OSS communities

#learning #culture #opensource

5 min read

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Jul 23 '20

How I Used Brotli:11 to Get Even Smaller CSS and JavaScript Files at CDN Scale

#css #javascript #webdev #opensource

9 min read

ihucos

Jun 30 '20

My Project is now Open Source

#news #opensource

1 min read

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Daniel Bean for Triplebyte

Jul 22 '20

Git should rename the blame command

#opensource #git #codenewbie #inclusion

7 min read

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Andres Cespedes Morales

Aug 5 '17

Debug Like a Champion

#java #debug #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 6 '18

How to install phpmyadmin on Linux (Ubuntu)

#opensource #howto #linux

3 min read

Tanvesh Takawale

Jul 16 '20

GitHub Arctic Code Vault

#github #opensource #git

1 min read

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Jun 14 '20

For the love of Open Source

#webdev #opensource #tools

2 min read

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