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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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tanya rai

Dec 19 '23

Master Prompt Engineering with OpenAI 🧠

#news #opensource #ai #devops

2 min read

Utpal Nadiger for Digger

Dec 15 '23

5 Open Source tools written in Golang that you should know about

#go #opensource #devops #backend

3 min read

Akshay

Dec 19 '23

ERROR : "System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate."

#devops #community #opensource #learning

2 min read

Nik L. for SuprSend

Dec 19 '23

Adding a Notification Feed in React Websites

#reactjsdevelopment #react #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jake Evans for Valink Solutions

Nov 19 '23

Embracing the Future: Valink Solutions' Vision for Community Healing and Technological Innovation

#rust #consulting #opensource #startup

2 min read

Yogesh Choudhary Paliyal

Dec 18 '23

How I became a Software Engineer without a Degree

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners

3 min read

Dec 18 '23

🔥Awesome Dev Portfolios - Your Portfolio Belongs Here!😍

#opensource #programming #productivity #webdev

2 min read

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Dec 14 '23

Sloan's Inbox: What's the hardest thing about being a developer?

#discuss #learning #opensource

1 min read

Dec 18 '23

Unveiling CodiumAI PR-Agent: A Comparative Analysis Against GitHub Copilot for Pull Requests

#opensource #github #ai #productivity

10 min read

Dec 18 '23

Thala For A Reason

#beginners #productivity #opensource

1 min read

OpenSource

Dec 18 '23

Meet Express.js on Steroids: Fastify's Rise

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Nov 15 '23

Add CI workflow to repo

#opensource #beginners #typescript

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jan 9 '24

Take the First Step: the Open Source Game

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

3 min read

Dec 18 '23

Advancing Real-Time Communication with WebRTC Data Channel

#webdev #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Dec 18 '23

React Native PSA - select and highlight text with custom context menus

#reactnative #opensource #highlighttext

1 min read

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