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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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Lulu

Aug 27 '24

Battle of the WAFs: Testing Detection and Performance Across Open-Source Firewalls

#cybersecurity #opensource #devops #webdev

4 min read

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Aug 27 '24

JavaFX Dock project

#java #javafx #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

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Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Aug 26 '24

7 Open Source Projects You Should Know - Go Edition ✔️

#opensource #go #github #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

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Tajammal Mabool

Sep 9 '24

How to Build Your First Open-Source Project

#opensource #development #developer #github

4 min read

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Samad Yar Khan for Middleware

Aug 22 '24

Top 10 Tips to Get Started with Open Source and GSoC

#programming #opensource #webdev #beginners

7 min read

Aug 26 '24

🚀 Building an Open-Source High-Frequency Trading Bot Using Binance Spot API

#cryptocurrency #opensource #javascript #node

2 min read

Eyo

Aug 26 '24

Simplifying Go Integration Tests with gofacto: A Powerful Factory for Mock Data

#go #testing #backend #opensource

7 min read

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Olabode Lawal-Shittabey

Aug 26 '24

Building jargons.dev [#4]: The Authentication System

#javascript #productivity #opensource #buildinpublic

6 min read

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Lulu Cheng for jarrid.xyz

Jul 28 '24

Keyper by Jarrid: Introduce Integrated Key + Role Management

#security #data #software #opensource

3 min read

Lulu

Aug 26 '24

A Free and Powerful WAF Solution for Web Security-SafeLine

#cybersecurity #opensource #devops #docker

3 min read

Cover image for Keyper by Jarrid: Introduce Secure Data Flow

Lulu Cheng for jarrid.xyz

Jul 27 '24

Keyper by Jarrid: Introduce Secure Data Flow

#security #data #software #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Ask Her Out 👰: A cool JavaScript project for the love of Developer's life 💖

Aug 24 '24

Ask Her Out 👰: A cool JavaScript project for the love of Developer's life 💖

#opensource #javascript #love #askherout

4 min read

Rastislav ₡ORE

Aug 26 '24

Licensing the Open Source Software

#opensource #corelicense

3 min read

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pouchlabs

Aug 26 '24

Fasteejs new fast express alternative

#showdev #webdev #opensource #node

1 min read

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arungeorgesaji for VortexLinux

Aug 26 '24

Introducing Vortex Linux: A Secure and Flexible Distribution in Development—Seeking Contributors!

#linux #opensource #development #contributorswanted

2 min read

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