Sourceforge.net is a great place to find good open source tools, but you need to be looking for something specific because the site holds every kind of software.
If you're doing contract work now I'd suggest running the business on the side until it's profitable enough to take the "plunge" get a good blackberry and work on courting businesses to build your client base.
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