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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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Dec 26 '23

How to copy table data easily with this Chrome Extension

#opensource #extensions #chrome #browserextensions

1 min read

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Nicolas Fränkel

Dec 21 '23

Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about

#apachefoundation #opensource #china

4 min read

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azu

Dec 26 '23

My GitHub Sponsors Revenue @ 2023

#github #sponsors #opensource

3 min read

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RisingWave Labs

Dec 26 '23

Highlights of RisingWave v1.5: The Open-Source Streaming Database

#news #database #productivity #opensource

4 min read

ansun

Dec 26 '23

Teamlinker:A new generation of team collaboration open source platform based on artificial intelligence

#opensource #github

3 min read

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Dec 26 '23

Navigating My Path into Cybersecurity: Education, Open Source, AI, and Conferences

#cybersecurity #google #opensource #ai

2 min read

IA_AU_ECO

Dec 26 '23

AI, cybersecurity and energy efficiency

#opensource #security #machinelearning #ai

1 min read

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Lymah

Dec 24 '23

Tublian Internship Journey: Navigating the Internship Landscape in Week One

#opensource #internships #softwareengineering #programming

8 min read

Shviam

Dec 25 '23

🚀 Seeking Contributors for Open Source AI Therapist Project! Join Us! 🤖✨

#help #opensource #ai #python

1 min read

IA_AU_ECO

Dec 25 '23

AI 2.0: The Evolution of the Open Source Movement

#ai #opensource #security #machinelearning

2 min read

Rajdip Bhattacharya

Dec 24 '23

Contributing to the cause: Doing it the open-source way

#opensource #programming #beginners #tutorial

9 min read

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Philip Miglinci for Glasskube

Dec 20 '23

🛠️ Ready to Launch: Our TOP 11 OPEN SOURCE Tools to START your business! 💻✨

#opensource #beginners #productivity

6 min read

Dec 25 '23

Building tiny-localstorage-db: A Lightweight Local Database for Browser Storage

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

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Dec 24 '23

Optimizing Your AWS EC2 Windows Instance: A Comprehensive Guide to Extending Root Volumes and Adding Extra Storage

#aws #devops #opensource #cloud

3 min read

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Vince Lwt for Lunary

Dec 22 '23

⭐ 6 Open-Source Vector Databases to Power Your AI App 🔗💽

#opensource #ai #database #github

4 min read

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