this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
7 points (70.6% liked)
Open Source
42136 readers
232 users here now
All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!
Useful Links
- Open Source Initiative
- Free Software Foundation
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Software Freedom Conservancy
- It's FOSS
- Android FOSS Apps Megathread
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
- !libre_culture@lemmy.ml
- !libre_software@lemmy.ml
- !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml
- !linux@lemmy.ml
- !technology@lemmy.ml
Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Is this your post?
https://lemmy.ml/post/39086016
You probably shall not ask the same question twice in such a short duration. It wastes server resource and reader's time on duplicated material.
Have you tried searching on the internet? "Is there an open source alarm program" is not a question. It's a query, which you should just input into Google and such. If it finds nothing good for you, we won't either. We're not better than search engines.
Imagine every one just makes a post with "Is there an open source XYZ program?" but with "XYZ" replaced with a random feature, this community would become a garbage collection site in one day. I'm sure that is not what you want to see either. Please don't do that.
However, as a community, we're happy to discuss a project that is already open source, or a closed source program about to get open sourced.
Writing your own program, and potentially if you're considering making it open source? Great. There are programming communities too. Also try website like StackOverflow.