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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
Well I was going to say Foxit PDF Reader, but my memory failed me. It was just free. So probably Firefox, though I had no concept of FOSS at the time and kept giving up on it and going back to Chrome due to autofill being pretty seamless across the mobile/desktop apps. But I'm all in on team Firefox now and have really enjoyed finding new apps to self-host in particular. Currently trying (and failing) to stand up an instance of Cryptpad.