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

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Opera had it YEARS prior. Back when they were an actual browser and not just another chrome frontend.

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Excuse me, what is tabbed browsing?

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Opening multiple websites at once in different tabs. Back in the days, browsers would open an entire new browser window in the background, so your task bar would be one giant array of browser instances. Until it inevitably crashed.

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Wow that is so cool. I didn’t know that

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