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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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Liftoff Studios

Sep 29

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#showdev #webdev #opensource #react

1 min read

CodeItBro

Sep 29

10 Github repositories to achieve Python mastery

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #python

3 min read

Celeste van der Watt

Sep 28

What makes our new PaaS offering, Upsun, so unique on the sustainability front? 🤔

#webdev #devops #tooling #opensource

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Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Sep 27

Blog series: Performance optimization of unfamiliar applications ✨

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #devops

1 min read

Katie Liu

Sep 27

Working in parallel branches in git!

#opensource #github

3 min read

Lord Neic

Sep 26

The Epic Saga of Former and Latter Approaches in Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Discourse

#softwaredevelopment #programming #software #opensource

3 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Sep 25

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#apachenifi #apachekafka #opensource #brasil

4 min read