DISQUS

AG · 2 years ago

Well, you can _actually_ get paid to write FOSS applications. Not a violation of the GPL (but you already knew that) :)

If I were a code slinger the following projects would be on my short list: amaroK, Slackware, Debian, CUPS

amaroK is an excellent juke box and podcatcher, use it exclusively (better than iTunes, yeah I said it.)

Slackware - My workstation distribution since day zero (well since 96')

Slackbuilds - Great repository of slackware package install scripts that work very well.

Debian - The distribution which spawned many other commercial Linux distros (specifically would work on package manager).

CUPS - It still needs a great deal of work.. Since Apple acquired I dunno what the future holds..

As an aside - contributing code is just one of the many ways to support a FOSS project. Documentation, monetary contributions, evangelising (read Netcasting, etc), submitting bugs.