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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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Shreya for Firecamp

Nov 6 '23

🔥 Top 11 Open Source Innovators Who Shaped the Developer World as We Live Today 🔭🔭

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

6 min read

Namatuzio

Nov 10 '23

CI/CD Part 1: Unit/Integration Testing

#testing #python #opensource #beginners

4 min read

OpenSource

Nov 10 '23

GNU Public License (GPL) vs. MIT: Choosing the best for Open Source

#opensource #programming #development #beginners

2 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 for SWIRL

Oct 21 '23

Accelerate Your Career 👩🏻‍💻 by Contributing to these 9 Repositories 🔥

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

7 min read

lara

Oct 12 '23

Unlocking Efficiency: The Enterprise Low-Code Revolution

#lowcode #react #opensource #cloud

32 min read

Nov 10 '23

Delving into open source territory with Google: PR #1

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

13 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for Aexol

Nov 10 '23

GraphQL AI Platform for developers

#graphql #ai #api #opensource

1 min read

himanshuseth004 for TestMu AI

Nov 10 '23

Auto Healing in Selenium Automation Testing

#selenium #webdev #opensource #testing

33 min read

Akarshan Kapoor

Nov 10 '23

The Ubuntu Summit 2023 🔥🎯

#ubuntu #opensource #linux

9 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Nov 9 '23

Testing in Python

#testing #python #opensource #programming

8 min read

OpenSource

Nov 10 '23

The evolution of Web Development: from dial-up to instant React

#webdev #opensource #react #community

2 min read

Oct 13 '23

⚡⚡ 7 Open Source Repositories That Will Make You 90% Smarter 😎

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Nov 10 '23

Transitioning from Lunr.js to Minisearch.js

#opensource #gsoc #julialang #devjournal

6 min read

Jalal 🚀

Nov 10 '23

Introducing DFlex - A Modern Javascript Drag and Drop Library

#webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

annaredbond for Flagsmith

Nov 6 '23

5 Open-Source Repositories for Faster Development in Monolithic Architecture

#monolith #opensource #webdev #productivity

4 min read

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