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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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Francesco Ciulla

Aug 8 '24

Tutorials are great! But something is missing...

#programming #opensource #books #rust

4 min read

Daniel Rosehill

Aug 9 '24

My GPT & ChatGPT Github Repository Index (08/24)

#chatgpt #promptengineering #gpt40 #opensource

2 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Jul 31 '24

Getting familiar with Rust's Syntax

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

5 min read

Lulu

Aug 9 '24

Safeguard Your Website with SafeLine

#cybersecurity #devops #waf #opensource

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 9 '24

Simple and Easy-to-Use Web Security Gateway

#security #opensource #cybersecurity #waf

2 min read

Sep 23 '24

Vuestic - Vue components and more

#vue #javascript #opensource #frontend

2 min read

NocoBase

Aug 7 '24

How to Build Efficient CRUD Apps?

#crud #lowcode #github #opensource

9 min read

Aug 8 '24

maXbox5

#webdev #deeplearning #opensource #datascience

1 min read

SR Soumya

Aug 8 '24

The Journey of Open Source Contribution: Why It Takes Time and How the Process Unfolds..

#opensource #webdev #web3 #development

3 min read

Aug 8 '24

Deploying A Django App: EC2 vs App Runner with External Celery

#aws #django #python #opensource

11 min read

Samyak Jain for CommandDash

Aug 6 '24

This free AI agent will make you open-source king 👑

#opensource #ai #tutorial #productivity

1 min read

Aug 7 '24

AutoMQ: A Cloud-Native Replacement of Apache Kafka

#opensource #cloud #tooling

1 min read

Yilia for API7

Aug 8 '24

What's New in ADC 0.11 & 0.12?

#opensource #gitops #tutorial #apigateway

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 8 '24

Unlock the Ultimate Free WAF: Secure Your Site Like a Pro

#opensource #cybersecurity #website #waf

4 min read

Aug 8 '24

Radicalbit AI Monitoring hits version 1.0.0

#news #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

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