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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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Feb 5

Tension Universe: a first look at a framework for when systems start to lie

#programming #ai #beginners #opensource

5 min read

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Jan 22

How to Build Escrow Payments for Online Marketplaces

#fintech #payments #opensource #ledger

7 min read

Jan 22

Open Source in war-torn Ukraine and around the world

#opensource #community #ukraine

1 min read

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Jan 22

Bifrost - The Fastest OSS AI Gateway

#showdev #ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

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Jan 22

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#events #ai #opensource

1 min read

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Jan 22

I built an open-source IRC client for Android - AndroidIRCX

#android #opensource #irc #coding

1 min read

rasjonell

Jan 26

DynamoDB Workflows: stop rewriting incident scripts (with DynamoLens)

#aws #dynamodb #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Krasimir Petkov

Jan 22

Building a Real-Time Stock Scanner with Redis, WebSockets, and Postgres

#webdev #python #devops #opensource

2 min read

Jan 22

Google Just Cut Android's Open Source Releases in Half (and nobody's happy about it)

#discuss #android #opensource #mobile

4 min read

Amissi

Jan 22

Stop Overengineering Small Projects: Meet SnapJSON, a Lightweight ORM for Node.js

#javascript #typescript #opensource #node

2 min read

JSGuruJobs

Jan 22

The Mono Engine Web Architecture and the Gecko Contingency

#architecture #opensource #web #webdev

2 min read

Jan 22

How to Build Reliable Meshtastic Networks in Real Deployments

#architecture #iot #networking #opensource

2 min read

NextBlock

Jan 26

Finally, a Modern CMS for Developers: Introducing NextBlock (Open Source)

#nextjs #react #cms #opensource

3 min read

Jan 22

Open Source: Unified Network Management Platform for Huawei Switches

#showdev #automation #networking #opensource

2 min read

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Jan 22

Understanding Balances in Ledgers

#fintech #systemdesign #opensource #ledger

4 min read

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