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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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Why Should Startups Develop a React Native App?

#reactnative #mobile #opensource #android

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DASWU

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#opensource #bigdata

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Marcel.L

Sep 20 '23

Open Source Contribution on GitHub

#github #developer #opensource #devops

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#news #database #programming #opensource

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Aug 31 '23

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#flags #opensource #github #typescript

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#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas

3 min read

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Orchestrating MicroVMs, from first principles: Introduction

#opensource #containers #docker #cloud

4 min read

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#opensource #bootstrap #webdev #html

3 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 20 '23

Open Source ABCs: Repository

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Sep 21 '23

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

#opensource #webdev #javascript #react

2 min read

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Slobi

Sep 21 '23

Chasing the GHOST bug

#bug #pinta #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 20 '23

How to create dynamic PDF using React?

#react #javascript #reactpdf #opensource

7 min read

Svante Seleborg

Sep 21 '23

Xecrets File Command Line cryptographic toolbox for Windows, macOS and Linux

#showdev #opensource #linux #security

1 min read

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Niklas for Rig.dev

Sep 19 '23

5 Open-Source Projects We’re Using to Build Rig.dev

#opensource #webdev #startup #productivity

8 min read

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Sep 10 '23

Discover Bun - A Faster, Modern JavaScript Runtime

#javascript #codenewbie #opensource

3 min read

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