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Open Source

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.

submission guidelines

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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Sep 6

Published Chrome extension for streamlined React development🎉

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Sep 5

My Key Takeaways From The Campus DevRel Show | Juan Pablo Flores E2

#opensource #beginners #github

5 min read

Snyk Team

Sep 5

Best practices for containerizing .net applications

#applicationsecurity #opensource

9 min read

Liran Tal for Snyk

Sep 5

The npm faker package and the unexpected demise of open source libraries

#dependencyhealth #opensource #opensourcesecurity

10 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 2

AWS open source news and updates #125

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Raffi Sarkissian for Lago

Sep 5

The 5 reasons why we chose open source for our Billing API

#opensource #api

3 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Sep 2

Best practices for managing Java dependencies

#applicationsecurity #opensource #java #security

8 min read

Archer Allstars

Sep 5

Let's fine tune your zRAM AKA Free RAM in openSUSE with Zstandard AKA zstd

#linux #opensource #productivity #beginners

6 min read

Igor Perepilitsyn

Sep 4

9 shell tools for productivity

#programming #productivity #opensource #devjournal

3 min read

Michael Guarino

Aug 29

Bringing a good OSS experience to Kubernetes DevOps

#kubernetes #devops #opensource

6 min read

Ali Amjad

Aug 29

A journey of creating a package on NPM ( Fast File Converter )

#node #opensource #npm #architecture

4 min read

Aug 28

file validation in python Much easier and more reliable

#python #programming #opensource #security

1 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Sep 1

🤔 ”I am unable to update my board using ST-Link”