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  22             <h1>2014 Holiday Giving Guide</h1>
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  25               <h2> Are you giving your loved ones holiday gifts they can use freely, or gifts which put someone else </h2>
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  27               <p>
  28                 Electronics are popular gifts for the holidays, but
  29                 people often overlook the restrictions that
  30                 manufacturers slip under the wrapping paper. Companies
  31                 like Microsoft and Apple can and will use Digital
  32                 Restrictions Management (DRM) to
  33                 prevent your loved ones from sharing apps on the
  34                 laptop you got them or remixing the songs on their
  35                 expensive new iPad. If the recipient of your gift
  36                 is as unlucky as one woman last year,
  37
  38                 <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/node/2250">
  39                   Amazon might even block all the books on their
  40                   Kindle and refuse to explain why
  41                 </a>.
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  43                 Companies want us to accept this kind of intrusive
  44                 control, but when you think about, it's unethical
  45                 (and annoying!).
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  48               <h2>Give freely</h2>
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  50               <p>
  51                 The good news is, for every device that uses DRM or
  52                 has a remote "kill switch" like the Kindle, ethical
  53                 companies have made a better one that doesn't, one
  54                 that your loved ones will be free to enjoy however
  55                 they wish. Here's a list of these smarter gifts,
  56                 compared with their more well-known, but more
  57                 restrictive alternatives. While you're reading, please
  58                 remember that donating to a charity in your friend or
  59                 family member's name is at least as meaningful as
  60                 buying them an electronic device. Some of our favorite
  61                 charities are the
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  63                 <a href="http://www.eff.org/">
  64                   Electronic Frontier Foundation
  65                 </a>,
  66                 <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org/">
  67                   Creative Commons
  68                 </a>,
  69                 <a href="http://wikimedia.org/">
  70                   Wikimedia Foundation
  71                 </a>,
  72                 <a href="http://www.sfconservancy.org/">
  73                   Software Freedom Conservancy
  74                 </a>,
  75                 <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">
  76                   Software Freedom Law Center</a>,
  77                 <a href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Foundation</a>
  78                 and
  79                 <a href="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>.
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  82               <h2>The Free Software Foundation's Holiday Giving Guide</h2>
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  84               <p>
  85                 The gifts in the left column respect your freedom much
  86                 more than those in the right column.
  87               </p>
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  91                   Please
  92                   <a href="http://www.fsf.org/share?u=http://www.fsf.org/givingguide&amp;t=Give%20tech%20gifts%20that%20support%20user%20freedom%20">
  93                     share the Giving Guide
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  96                   with your friends and family members, especially
  97                   those that might give you presents! (We're using the hashtag
  98                   #givefreely.)
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 102               <p>
 103                 To make a really big splash, get some friends
 104                 together, print the
 105                 <a href="https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/misc/GivingGuide2013.pdf">
 106                   PDF version of the Giving Guide
 107                 </a>
 108                 and hand it out near a local store that sells
 109                 DRM-encumbered products. Be sure to take photos!
 110
 111                 Send us photos and any questions at
 112                 <a href="mailto:campaigns@fsf.org">
 113                   campaigns@fsf.org
 114                 </a>.
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