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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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#ai #genai #opensource #apachekafka

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Xii Kii (Andy Green)

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#webdev #opensource #tailwindcss #nextjs

2 min read

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Nov 11 '24

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#webdev #websummit #startup #opensource

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Krzysztof Nowicki

Oct 8 '24

Why DocWire C++20 SDK is a Game-Changer for Developers

#opensource #cpp #flant5 #programming

3 min read

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Chris Grams for Tidelift

Oct 8 '24

Paid maintainers do more maintenance and documentation work than unpaid maintainers

#opensource #maintainers #tidelift #survey

6 min read

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MrDPrasad

Nov 11 '24

The Power of Open Source Communities: Paving the Way to High-Paying Jobs

#opensource #ai #datascience #linux

3 min read

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Vaishnavi Sonawane

Nov 11 '24

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#programming #webdev #coding #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Oct 31 '24

HTTP/3 for Beginners and How to Protect Your HTTP/3 Website

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

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Dwayne McDaniel for GitGuardian

Nov 11 '24

SOSS Fusion 2024: Uniting Security Minds for the Future of Open Source

#techtalks #opensource #security #cybersecurity

7 min read

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chouchouji

Nov 11 '24

I had wrote a vscode extension used to manage system aliases

#vscode #extensions #opensource #typescript

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#python #opensource #beginners #programming

5 min read

Oct 8 '24

Secure Game Authentication: Encryption Techniques and their Role in Unity Game Development

#unity3d #security #opensource #csharp

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Clawject: Dependency Injection with Beans

#typescript #node #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Oct 12 '24

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#webdev #opensource #python #php

3 min read

Aditya Pratap Bhuyan

Oct 8 '24

The Evolution of AWS and Its Relationship with the Open Source Ecosystem

#aws #opensource

6 min read

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