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>last time that the general public was genuinely excited about some open source project? Firefox? Wikipedia? It's been almost ten years. //

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.