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In order to support other open source developers who I feel are doing an excellent job and deserve your consideration, I'm linking to their websites here. This is not an exhaustive list, I'm just paying my respects to a few that stand out.
squirrelmail an excellent webmail program that lower's the barriers to entry by keeping it's system requirements low.
adodb An extremely powerful database abstraction library that lures microsoft programmers to the php world by mimicking microsoft's ADO database library. Some of PHP's best OOP.
smarty An easy to use template library that is very easy to learn but provides a great deal of flexibility and power under the hood if you care to explore it.
Mozilla One of the few projects that rivals Microsoft in the "catering to developer's" department. A rich tool set make this web browser a great end-user tool, but more importantly, makes designing standards compliant web applications much easier.
CVS (excellent windows client) Version control for the masses. Check out the windows client, tortoise cvs, which does what I wish more programs would do... Effectively go away until needed and then be right at your finger tips willing and able to perform at your command.
PHP a flexible, powerful, feature rich scripting language designed for the web and for communicating with databases. Free, open source product available on most internet capable platforms. If you haven't heard of this yet (were have you been the last few years?) it's along the lines of Cold Fusion, Active Server Pages or Java Server Pages. Extremely useful for RAD development.
GAIM gets high marks for being the most accommodating IM software I know. It talks to AOL, Yahoo, MSN and others. Additionally, write bots or plugins in Perl or C.
PostgreSQL is my preferred database. Full featured (now), powerful and fast.
MySQL is a great database. It is easy to learn, has great documentation, runs on *nix or Windows (with no effort) and is fast. It is not yet a full featured database, but will provide the core functionality needed by many applications and really shines when doing large batch jobs.
php Text DB API deserve recognition because it too tries to lower the barriers to entry. By providing an SQL like interface to flat text files, users doing prototyping or who do not have access to a RDBMS can still get the job done.
Sourceforge is a tremendous asset to the open source community.
Bearfruit.org is my personal website. It doesn't make money, but it does attempt to send a message.
Followers.net is the company I work for, but is not involved in the development of this project.