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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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Abhishek Keshri

Jan 27 '24

Master Git Interactive Rebase 🧑‍💻🎓

#git #tutorial #opensource #github

1 min read

Feb 9 '24

Top 10+ Bootstrap 5 Free and Open-Source UI Kits

#opensource #webdev #bootstrap #bootstrap5

5 min read

TThroo-Dev

Jan 6 '24

JSONCrack Codebase Analysis — Part 4.2.1 — Editor — JsonEditor Component

#javascript #webdev #opensource #react

7 min read

Mateusz Charytoniuk

Jan 27 '24

I made a static site generator in PHP (and it's fast)

#webdev #programming #opensource #php

2 min read

Oussama Ben Sassi

Jan 22 '24

Should Sensitive Systems Be Open Source ?

#discuss #opensource #security #softwareengineering

6 min read

Katie Liu

Jan 27 '24

ChatCraft week 3: Coding and code reviews

#chatcraft #typescript #chatgpt #opensource

3 min read

Joseph Mukorivo

Jan 26 '24

Deep Dive into Go Reflection: Crafting a Dynamic Open Source Config Package

#backend #opensource #go #programming

7 min read

Aakarshit Uppal

Jan 27 '24

The Joy of Hackable Tools

#opensource #tinkering #neovim #obsidian

8 min read

Jan 26 '24

Dumbphones, Data Ownership, and Graphene

#android #opensource #learning

3 min read

Pieces 🌟 for Pieces.app

Jan 26 '24

Pieces Open Source Meetup #3: 2024 Kickoff

#opensource #beginners #meetup #programming

4 min read

Jan 26 '24

Managing Public and Private Repositories in a Project

#git #opensource #github #tutorial

2 min read

Elad Ben-Israel for Winglang

Jan 24 '24

Cloud, why so difficult? 🤷‍♀️

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

8 min read

Prathamesh Jadhav

Jan 26 '24

🛠️ Mastering Git: 12 Essential Commands Every Developer Should Know

#github #git #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jan 26 '24

OpenIM （Open-Source Instant Messaging） Mac Deployment Guide

#opensource #chatgpt #im

2 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Jan 15 '24

🎀 Five tools to make your K8s experience more enjoyable 🎀

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #docker

6 min read

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