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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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Cover image for Announcing RateMyOpenAPI!

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 19 '24

Announcing RateMyOpenAPI!

#opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Log Viewer for Next.js Server Side: Node.js

Jan 22 '25

Log Viewer for Next.js Server Side: Node.js

#nextjs #node #opensource #api

5 min read

Cover image for Day 2 - Announcing our Open-Source React Component

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 19 '24

Day 2 - Announcing our Open-Source React Component

#opensource #security

7 min read

Cover image for Git and Github

Jemmy Dalsaniya

Jan 22 '25

Git and Github

#git #github #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for PHP Supabase Comments

Jan 22 '25

PHP Supabase Comments

#supabase #php #opensource #supacomments

1 min read

Uday Rana

Jan 21 '25

Reviving An Outdated Project

#opensource #javascript #osd700

3 min read

Cover image for Building AI Agents With Your Enterprise Data: A Developer’s Guide

MindsDB Team for MindsDB

Jan 21 '25

Building AI Agents With Your Enterprise Data: A Developer’s Guide

#ai #machinelearning #sql #opensource

11 min read

Jan 20 '25

Design Patterns in Golang: A Comprehensive Guide

#go #opensource #backend #beginners

4 min read

Dec 18 '24

Class Society in Open Source

#opensource

4 min read

haimzlato

Dec 18 '24

Hacking the Python Import System and Rewriting the AST For Durable Execution

#python #opensource #webdev #programming

1 min read

Judy

Jan 21 '25

Calculate prime number table within 10000 using screening method

#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

3 min read

Sergey Ilyevsky

Jan 21 '25

Open Source Software Weaknesses – And a Possible Solution

#opensource #development

8 min read

Chen Debra

Dec 18 '24

Apache DolphinScheduler Restricts Timing Scheduling at the Second Level

#javascript #dolphinscheduler #opensource #technical

4 min read

Gittech

Dec 18 '24

Github's Top 31 items of Dec 18, 2024

#git #github #productivity #opensource

12 min read

Unicorn Developer

Jan 21 '25

Ode to one diagnostic rule and to couple more, or Jellyfin check

#csharp #opensource #programming

9 min read

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