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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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Leo

Aug 8 '24

AI Integration with streamtasks

#showdev #opensource #ai

5 min read

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Aug 7 '24

Decoding OCR: A Comprehensive Guide

#opensource #ai #computervision #machinelearning

12 min read

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Aug 7 '24

Milvus Adventures August 7, 2024

#opensource #vectordatabase #langchain #genai

3 min read

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Aug 7 '24

Comparing the copyToClipboard implementations in Shadcn-ui/ui and Codehike.

#codehike #shadcnui #typescript #opensource

3 min read

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John McBride for OpenSauced

Aug 6 '24

Introducing OpenSSF Scorecard for OpenSauced

#opensource #security

5 min read

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Someshwaran Mohankumar

Aug 7 '24

Understanding and Managing Zombie Processes in Linux — With Working Example!

#linux #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Aug 7 '24

Top 10 Free APIs You Need to Use in Your Projects

#api #chatgpt #opensource #unsplash

2 min read

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Francesco Ciulla

Aug 6 '24

Controlling How Tests Are Run

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

3 min read

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Aug 7 '24

Open Source and Capitalism

#beginners #opensource #learning #tutorial

6 min read

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Chiemezuo

Aug 7 '24

GSoC Week 10

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #wagtail #opensource

4 min read

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s-vamshi

Aug 6 '24

🚀 Deploying Spring Boot Microservices using Cyclops ☸️⚓

#opensource #kubernetes #react #go

3 min read

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Aug 6 '24

Leaving the Comfort Zone Behind: The Journey to Developing a Plugin for Obsidian.md

#opensource #obsidian #plugin #motivation

4 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 5 '24

Is magic link sign-in dying? A closer look at its declining popularity

#webdev #identity #opensource #security

3 min read

Lulu

Aug 6 '24

Boost Kubernetes Security: Deploying SafeLine WAF with Ingress-nginx

#cybersecurity #kubernetes #devops #opensource

3 min read

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Wilbert Misingo

Aug 6 '24

Create the fastest and precise invoice data extractor for structural output using AI

#codenewbie #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

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