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What was your gateway product to open source?
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I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, "Whoa, this is amazing!" and got us hooked on the world of open source.
What made you to jump ships? Was it the "free" side of things like qBittorrent? Did you even know that some of your programs are open source before you got into the topic?
For me those products were:
- Android
- Firefox
- VLC
- Calibre
Am thinking to order some merch and I wanna make it more accessible to people unfamilliar with open source culture. Now, am looking for fairly normalized but still underrepresented product -- maybe it could serve as a conversation starter and push some people to open source
Slackware Linux, on a bunch of floppies. Oh man, when did I get old?
About 20 years ago. But same, though I mostly gravitated towards Debian.
Make sure you get me back every floppy disk! Last person I let use mine to install Slackware, corrupted two out of the 24 disks. That was rough.