http://ericajoy.disqus.com/enThu, 13 Dec 2007 05:24:24 -0000http://www.ericabaker.com/2007/12/10/a-question-that-came-up-this-weekend/#comment-2370212<p>Well, you can _actually_ get paid to write FOSS applications. Not a violation of the GPL (but you already knew that) :)</p><p>If I were a code slinger the following projects would be on my short list: amaroK, Slackware, Debian, CUPS</p><p>amaroK is an excellent juke box and podcatcher, use it exclusively (better than iTunes, yeah I said it.)</p><p>Slackware - My workstation distribution since day zero (well since 96')</p><p>Slackbuilds - Great repository of slackware package install scripts that work very well.</p><p>Debian - The distribution which spawned many other commercial Linux distros (specifically would work on package manager).</p><p>CUPS - It still needs a great deal of work.. Since Apple acquired I dunno what the future holds..</p><p>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.</p>AGThu, 13 Dec 2007 05:24:24 -0000