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It's great to see FOSS going mainstream (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago by zephyr to c/[email protected]

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It's hard to see examples of FOSS being used widely between people. This could be the 2nd time after Mastodon that a FOSS project receives massive attention.

I can't recall other software that the public might have used without knowing it's open source. The ones I can get off the top of my head may be Firefox or Inkscape.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Linux kernel in just about every Internet device. Most people don't realize that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. Nearly everyone runs Linux. They just don't know it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

there is a trend now : big $ don't want 3rd party apps any more. May be the next is youtube : block individious, block newpipe...

[–] kartonrealista 4 points 1 year ago

There's plenty of open source software that gets a lot of usage, like Audacity, OBS, VSCode, Python, etc.

[–] tiwenty 1 points 1 year ago

Or Linux on (almost) every server :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is definitely a huge change happening in the last 5 years, I can see it every day more and more

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Obviously this is referencing apps rather than libraries etc.

GIMP is used a lot by people looking for a "free Photoshop" as is Libreoffice for people looking for a "free MS Office". VLC is used by a huge number of people. OBS, Audacity, various Chromium based browsers like Brave.