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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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Domenico Tenace for This is Learning

Jun 27 '24

7 Open Source Projects You Should Know - C# Edition ✔️

#opensource #github #csharp #dotnet

2 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Jul 4 '24

Interview with Simon Hyll, a Tauri Maintainer

#rust #tauri #opensource #maintainer

1 min read

Jun 24 '24

Valibot: featherweight validator

#javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Shaffan

Jul 5 '24

A Simple Instagram Tracking Script Written in Python

#python #opensource #security #cybersecurity

2 min read

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Jul 3 '24

7 Open Source Projects You Should Know - PHP Edition ✔️

#opensource #github #php #webdev

2 min read

Cait Bixby for Tidelift

May 31 '24

Upstream preview: Secure by design with Aeva Black and Jack Cable from CISA

#opensource #upstream #security #cybersecurity

3 min read

Jul 4 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 2.6

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #react

3 min read

Jul 4 '24

Low-code drag-and-drop tool for building RESTful APIs with in minutes.

#node #webdev #opensource #typescript

14 min read

Palomino for Logto

Jul 3 '24

GraphQL and REST API

#webdev #api #coding #opensource

6 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jun 14 '24

How Data Integration Is Evolving Beyond ETL

#datascience #dataintegration #opensource #etl

16 min read

Jul 4 '24

Safe and Secure Consumption of Open Source Libraries

#security #opensource #devops #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Jake Page for Distr

Jul 1 '24

Log and trace management made easy. Quickwit Integration via Glasskube

#devops #database #opensource #aws

8 min read

Jul 4 '24

Apache Answer 1.3.5: Flexibility. Reaction. Extension.

#opensource #go

2 min read

Jul 3 '24

Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.91 released to CPAN

#opensource #perl #release #openssl

2 min read

Jul 3 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 2.5

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #shadcnui

3 min read

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