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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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Yilia for Apache APISIX

Apr 9

How to Bring Your Own Domain in SaaS Platforms?

#programming #tutorial #devops #opensource

6 min read

lauren rae hanford for Tidelift

Apr 9

The ROI of paying open source maintainers (in light of the xz utils backdoor)

#opensource #xz #security

7 min read

Apr 9

Exploring Performance Challenges: Insights into AtomicLongMap's Efficiency in Multithreaded Environments

#google #programming #opensource #java

5 min read

Apr 9

Gorabbit: RabbitMQ supercharged for Go Applications

#go #rabbitmq #opensource #mqtt

7 min read

Prasanth

Apr 9

Introducing Podkast Audio Player: Your Customizable React Component for Seamless Audio Playback

#javascript #node #react #opensource

2 min read

Apr 8

Release 1.8 Contributions : ChatCraft.org🤖

#typescript #regex #opensource #ai

2 min read

Giuliano Bellini

Apr 8

Sniffnet 1.3 released!

#news #rust #opensource #networking

1 min read

Apr 8

NixOs - Your portable dev enviroment

#tooling #opensource #unix

3 min read

Apr 8

Building Poem Generator using Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #api #poem

6 min read

GitNation

Apr 8

Catch JS stars in the US's biggest planetarium 🌌

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Apr 8

Adding a Code Editor to your React App

#webdev #react #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Otto Kekalainen

Apr 7

Heartbleed and XZ Backdoor Learnings: Open Source Infrastructure Can Be Improved Efficiently With Moderate Funding

#opensource #security #internetinfrastructure

5 min read

Seal

Apr 8

Walrus vs. Terraform Enterprise: Expand your IaC to Kubernetes ecosystem!

#beginners #iac #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Apr 5

Show Feed to ChatCraft users

#opensource #ai #feed #cloudflarechallenge

2 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Apr 6

ChatCraft Adventures #12, Slash Commands

#opensource #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Dmitry Romanoff

Apr 5

Getting error when starting Rancher Desktop on Mac.

#devops #docker #opensource #howto

1 min read

Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

Apr 5

Agent Cloud vs CrewAI

#webdev #opensource #openai #rag

7 min read

Michelle Mannering for GitHub

Apr 8

Release Radar • March 2024 Edition

#news #github #opensource #community

5 min read

Asm Raihan

Apr 5

🔐 Lucia Auth: A Flexible Open Source Authentication Library for the JavaScript Ecosystem! 🔐

#webdev #opensource #luciaauth #security

2 min read

Schalk Neethling

Apr 8

12 Free Courses To Help You Develop More Secure Software - Shift Security Left

#security #learning #opensource

6 min read