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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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Matija Sosic for Wasp

Dec 11

Should You Use an Open-source SaaS Boilerplate Starter or a $300+ Paid One?

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

8 min read

Dec 11

Holiday SEO Checklist: How to Boost Traffic and Backlinks During the Festive Season

#devrel #beginners #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Dec 11

Metabase 52: Sankey charts, faster search, and more

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

4 min read

Passakon Puttasuwan

Dec 11

The WordPress-WP Engine Conflict: A Deep Dive into Open Source Business Models and Ethics

#opensource #wordpress #wpengine #drama

3 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Dec 11

Launch Week Day 3: Open Source Independence

#opensource #typescript #go #node

2 min read

arinak1017

Dec 11

The Open Source Finale: Pt. 3

#opensource

3 min read

thinkThroo

Dec 11

Comparison of the middleware implementation between Supabase Auth documentation and the nextjs-stripe-supabase.

#opensource #nextjs #supabase #stripe

5 min read

keploy

Dec 11

Understanding Beta Testing: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Process, Benefits, and Challenges

#webdev #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Andre

Dec 11

Decentralized E2EE Social Media App

#opensource #encryption #socialmedia

1 min read

KateMLady

Dec 11

SQL - table assistant

#sql #database #opensource #programming

2 min read

Dmitrii

Dec 11

Open Source LLMOps LangSmith Alternatives: LangFuse vs. Lunary.ai

#ai #devops #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Dec 10

OSD Final Chapter: Part 3

#opensource #javafx #java #github

3 min read

Dec 11

Looking for some feedback on my team's new open-source secrets vault project.

#discuss #opensource #programming #security

1 min read

Uday Rana

Dec 10

My Goals In Working On Open Source

#opensource

2 min read

Dec 10

Building Glide: A Modern E-commerce Platform with Angular 17 and .NET 8

#webdev #angular #dotnet #opensource

3 min read

Dec 10

Want a Remote Internship Working on Free Software?

#opensource #internship #javascript