Ten things you can do to help open source
If you're happy just using open source, then no problem. But if you want to contribute, because you have a problem that nobody else is fixing -- or simply because you want to do your bit in exchange -- it can be difficult to know where to start. The following suggestions might just inspire you to join in.
Then this post goes on to give some suggestions. Most important two: use OpenSource software, and note that you don't need to run Linux to use OpenSource software ... there is lots available for the Mac and that other system as well.
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Right now I use a Windows machine if only because XP was stable when I bought the thing.
My machine is a WAMP machine as oppose to the purely open souce LAMP, the AMP being Apache, MySQL and PHP.
I also run Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox and Sunbird.
A lot of it is because I'm sick of the games being played by Microsoft.