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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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Adithya Nangarath

Sep 29 '24

Comparing Open-Source LLMs like Hugging Face Transformers with Closed Platforms

#llm #opensource #gpt3 #spheron

5 min read

Sep 8 '24

Why Open-Source Contributions Might Be Your Best Bet for Getting Hired as a Developer in the AI Era

#beginners #opensource #learning #webdev

4 min read

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Francesco Ciulla

Sep 21 '24

Why might Rust be a smart choice for developers today?

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

1 min read

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FreeCoderX

Sep 28 '24

经过2个多月终于把我的github Sponsor弄好

#github #sponsor #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Navemics

Aug 25 '24

🚀 New open-source alert!

#opensource #api #devtools #testing

1 min read

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Sep 27 '24

LINUX Systems Under Attack via Printing System (CUPS)

#security #linux #opensource #ubuntu

5 min read

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Abby Nduta

Sep 28 '24

Debugging DevStack

#opensource #openstack #webdev #cloud

2 min read

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Oct 1 '24

FlyonUI - An Open Source Tailwind CSS Component Library is Live 🚀

#tailwindcss #webdev #opensource #webcomponents

6 min read

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Sep 28 '24

Monetizing GitHub Issue resolutions with BountyHub

#showdev #github #opensource #startup

3 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Sep 28 '24

Merge TIME!

#opensource #java #ai

2 min read

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Sep 27 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 with Hyperswitch

#digitalpayments #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 27 '24

Dapr in the cloud with Catalyst public beta

#news #microservices #opensource #api

3 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Sep 27 '24

Docwire SDK -C++20 library for advanced data processing

#news #cpp #opensource #programming

3 min read

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Sep 27 '24

5 Open Source Alternatives to Your Favorite Software and Apps.

#opensource #webdev #coding #productivity

2 min read

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Vignesh J

Sep 27 '24

🌟 Join the Open Source Community on Discord! 🚀

#vigneshdevhub #opensource #community #discord

2 min read

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