Alternatively, you could support open source software without all the politics, by participating in the FreeBSD Foundation's year-end fund raising drive: <a href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/fundraising.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/fundraising.shtml</a><p>(Disclosure: I'm a FreeBSD developer, and the FreeBSD Foundation paid for me to go to a conference a few years ago.)