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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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Jul 17 '22

A deep-dive into browser fingerprinting and privacy

#privacy #opensource #security #cybersecurity

3 min read

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Fahimul Kabir Chowdhury

Jul 17 '22

Top 10 Python OpenCV Basic Functions - Tech2 etc

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

4 min read

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Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Jun 17 '22

How to use Luos with Arduino? Step 1 - Setup the IDE

#arduino #opensource #microservices #luos

1 min read

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Sm0ke

Jul 16 '22

Soft UI Dashboard - Free Django Template

#django #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jul 16 '22

7 Newborn Open Source Repositories

#webdev #opensource #javascript

3 min read

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Michelle Duke for GitHub

Jul 15 '22

GitHub's non-code features

#github #beginners #productivity #opensource

6 min read

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Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Jul 15 '22

We raised $8M Seed round for our open source Shopify challenger

#showdev #javascript #startup #opensource

3 min read

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gao-sun for Logto

Jul 16 '22

Logto: Open-source project to build sign-in, auth, and user identity within minutes

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Jun 16 '22

Cyber-physical systems

#systems #opensource #microservices #luos

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 15 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #120

#opensource #aws

15 min read

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jul 15 '22

Show dev: I built a free collection of skeleton loaders using Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev #programming

8 min read

MakendranG

Jul 15 '22

Key Components of Kubernetes

#kubernetes #beginners #cloud #opensource

4 min read

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Andrea Liliana Griffiths for GitHub

Jul 26 '22

Cómo crear un perfil para GitHub Sponsors

#github #opensource #spanish #programming

6 min read

Narasimha Prasanna HN

Jul 15 '22

Check out my new programming language called - Boson, written in Rust!

#rust #tutorial #opensource #javascript

1 min read

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Richard Dobroň

Jul 15 '22

Localizing PHP application with FBT instead of standard i18n

#php #i18n #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

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Atulpriya Sharma

Jul 15 '22

Setup Paralus on Kind Cluster

#kubernetes #opensource

5 min read

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Peter H. Boling

Jul 14 '22

Life After Github?

#git #github #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

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Rob OLeary

Jul 11 '22

The best password manager on Linux?

#linux #productivity #opensource #security

9 min read

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Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Jul 14 '22

What a Healthy Relationship with Open Source Looks Like ft. GitLab's John Coghlan

#github #podcast #opensource #management

2 min read

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muneebbug

Jul 12 '22

Open Source backend in just 1 File

#go #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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Jack Aboutboul for AlmaLinux

Jul 14 '22

AlmaLinux and the Top 500 HPC Supercomputers

#opensource #linux #performance #almalinux

2 min read

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Richard Dobroň

Jul 14 '22

How to generate PHP enums from database in Laravel?

#php #opensource #tutorial #laravel

2 min read

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Jul 14 '22

Announcing Zapp! Build Flutter apps in browser

#flutter #dart #tooling #opensource

4 min read

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Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Jun 14 '22

Safe, fast and lightweight

#opensource #microservices #community #luos

1 min read

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Daniel

Jul 13 '22

How Open Source Can Help You Level Up as a Developer

#beginners #github #opensource #career

4 min read

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