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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.

submission guidelines

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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Antonio

Jul 31 '24

Show us your open-source project!

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 20 '24

Everything you need to know about Base64

#webdev #opensource #identity #security

5 min read

Aug 20 '24

Generating a JSDoc comment for your function using OpenAI.

#jsdoc #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

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Kelvin Hey

Aug 20 '24

10 Best SDDM Themes available for Linux

#linux #opensource #bash #shell

2 min read

Akira Shimodate

Aug 20 '24

Introducing VirtualStorageLibrary: A .NET Solution for In-Memory Tree Structures

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #nuget

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 20 '24

How does the browser process the URL input in the address bar?

#webdev #tutorial #identity #opensource

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 20 '24

Understand Common Web Attacks and Strengthen Defense with SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #devops #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 20 '24

SafeLine WAF Optimization Tips: A Practical Guide for System Operators

#cybersecurity #devops #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 20 '24

SafeLine WAF: A Powerful, Free Web Application Firewall

#webdev #opensource #cybersecurity #waf

2 min read

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José I. Gutiérrez B.

Jul 17 '24

Boost Your Android Development with Fast & Easy Form Builder

#mobile #kotlin #opensource #androiddev

3 min read

Hamdi (KHELIL) LION

Aug 20 '24

A quick navigation through Service Mesh in Kubernetes 👀

#kubernetes #cloud #networking #opensource

8 min read

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Aug 9 '24

10 Essential Open Source Tools to Start Your Node.js Journey

#opensource #node #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

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Leo Antony

Aug 19 '24

File Organizer Desktop app with Go🚀

#go #wails #vue #opensource

2 min read

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Chiemezuo

Aug 19 '24

GSoC Week 12

#googlesummerofcode #gsoc #opensource #wagtail

3 min read

Hamdi (KHELIL) LION

Aug 19 '24

🚀 Kubernetes RBAC and Role Aggregation Made Easy

#kubernetes #cloud #security #opensource

4 min read

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