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AGPL, self-hosted drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange: mail, calendar, and groupware with full Outlook and mobile compatibility, under EU jurisdiction. Free tier caps at 5 users.

Turns your coding agent into a design engine that outputs prototypes, slides, and UI as local files. Bring your own model, cloud or fully local via Ollama. Early-stage.

Browser-based video editor that runs on-device: no uploads, no watermark, no account. A local-first alternative to ByteDance's CapCut. Still early-stage.

An Apache-2.0 cloud platform (IaaS): build a multi-tenant private cloud on your own hardware, across KVM, VMware, and Proxmox hypervisors. The vendor-neutral answer to VMware Cloud Director.

An offline, open-source Markdown editor for researchers, with Zettelkasten note-linking and citation management. It stores everything as plain .md files, a GPL-licensed alternative to Obsidian.

An offline-first, open-source note app with end-to-end encryption and plain-Markdown storage. A self-hosted alternative to Evernote; sync to your own WebDAV or Nextcloud, with team features paywalled.

The vendor-neutral CNCF standard for traces, metrics, and logs. Instrument once and route your telemetry to any backend, ending the agent lock-in that makes Datadog and New Relic so sticky.

A distraction-free desktop Markdown editor with live preview that works directly on local .md files, with no account, telemetry, or cloud. A fully offline, MIT-licensed alternative to Typora.

MIT-core LLM observability for tracing, evals, and prompt management. A self-hosted alternative to LangSmith, with enterprise compliance controls gated behind a paid license key.

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Formbricks GmbH

Formbricks GmbH

Germany

The company behind Formbricks, an open source, self-hostable platform for surveys and customer feedback.

Xinity FlexCo

Xinity FlexCo

Austria

A Vienna provider of sovereign, self-hosted generative AI infrastructure for European enterprises.

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A roller conveyor in a dim warehouse carries a long row of identical new cardboard boxes. Among them ride a few old, crumpled boxes patched with tape, one in sharp focus at the center.
Article Open Source Digital Sovereignty

The fix is out. Is it in?

Almost four years after a free fix shipped, about one in eight Log4j downloads was still a vulnerable version. Now AI has bank regulators counting the days. Why private copies slow the fix down, what the banks' new alliance changes, and the question to ask your IT team.

Kai A. Hartung
Kai A. Hartung
· 2 min read
A long till receipt listing licences, cloud, add-ons and contractors, torn off just below the word TOTAL.
Article Open Source Digital Sovereignty

The bill nobody can add up.

The Dutch government has a Linux desktop on trial, no new money for its digital autonomy plans, and no total for what it pays Microsoft. Leaving shows up as line items someone must sign for. Staying hides in budgets nobody adds up.

Kai A. Hartung
Kai A. Hartung
· 6 min read
Mock AI model page labelled "Open Source" but marked "not an open release," with a locked, disabled "Request access" button and a "Sold via a private cloud" sticker.
Article Open Source Digital Sovereignty

Open in name only.

Germany spent public millions on a "Sovereign Open Source" AI, then gated it and let a vendor sell it. Switzerland and the Netherlands show the difference: real openness is a mandate, not a label.

Kai A. Hartung
Kai A. Hartung
· 2 min read