Perhaps someone could answer "yet when was the last time that the general public was genuinely excited about some [closed source] software project?" to give us an idea about what is meant.
Do the "general public" get excited about software as opposed to full products.
Like other's said, Android. Along similar lines - and sometimes called "open source" - there's Khan Academy.
Makerbot (! http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57520633-1/pulling-back-... and RaspberryPi are open[ish] projects but perhaps still too geek to be public interest.
Maybe "Course Builder" is public enough, or perhaps too restricted to educational space: http://www.itproportal.com/2012/09/13/open-source-education-....
Perhaps someone could answer "yet when was the last time that the general public was genuinely excited about some [closed source] software project?" to give us an idea about what is meant.
Do the "general public" get excited about software as opposed to full products.