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Change of strategy to make free and open-source software mainstream.

As a free and open-source software advocate, I try to help people make to the move to software that its at least open-source . Personally, I run Linux Mint on my personal laptop, Mozilla Firefox my go to web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird my email client, and LibreOffice as my office suite. Rhythmbox is my go to audio player. All this apps work for me, so much so that I consider them indispensable to have on my system and are the ones I recommend the most since I used on daily basis. Yet, with time I've seen that not everyone would be served as well by these apps because their needs are completely different. Even for me, at work I can't use Linux Mint since we use SAP ERP , and Microsoft Office . As such, I've to use Windows for work. I still use Firefox for when I need to keep track of certain things I need to for my work. This has thought me that if you don't give people the right app, you are asking for trouble. There are some proprietary apps that...