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- Holiday Giving Guide | Free Software Foundation | Working together for free software
+ Ethical Tech Giving Guide | Free Software Foundation | Working together for free software
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+
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-
Compact Laptops
+
Full-Sized Laptops
-
Libiquity Taurinus X200 with GNU/Linux
+
Minifree T400 with GNU/Linux
- - As free as can be: runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel operating system and libreboot firmware on hardware that is certified to Respect Your Freedom.
+ - As free as can be: runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel operating system and libreboot firmware on hardware that is certified to Respect Your Freedom.
- Durable hardware is meant to last and easy to repair.
- - Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop.
- - SAVE! 10% off any purchase. Expires Jan 31, 2016. Details.
+ - Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop.
- SAVE! €100 (approx. $106) off each item, and Minifree will donate to the FSF with each purchase. Expires Jan 31, 2016. Details.
-
Lenovo U31 with Windows
+
Apple Macbook Pro with OSX
- - Runs on proprietary software that profits from treating the user as a product -- each account is assigned an advertising ID to help Microsoft sell user data.
- - Includes Management Engine, a hardware-based backdoor that gives Intel a permanent backdoor into your computer.
- - Mandatory Windows updates force users to test potentially unstable new versions. Read more about Windows's abuses.
+ -
+ Runs on proprietary software that restricts the user's freedoms.
+
+ -
+ Apple's App Store uses DRM to restrict what you can do with your purchases.
+
+ - Comes crawling with spyware.
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+
+
Smartphones
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-
-
3D Printers
+
+
Compact Laptops
-
Lulzbot Mini
+
Libiquity Taurinus X200 with GNU/Linux
+
- - Ease of use features like self-leveling and self-cleaning.
- - Hardware designs available to make modification and improvement easy. Standardized material format allows 3D printing with plastics, wood-, stone-, bamboo-, rubber-, and metal-like materials.
- - Respects Your Freedom-certified by the FSF to run with all free software, making 3D printing more accessible and encouraging innovation.
- - BONUS! Receive a gratis reel of filament when you buy from this guide. Expires Dec 30, 2015. Details.
+ - As free as can be: runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel operating system and libreboot firmware on hardware that is certified to Respect Your Freedom.
+ - Durable hardware is meant to last and easy to repair.
+ - Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop.
+ - SAVE! 10% off your subtotal price, and Libiquity will donate to the FSF with each purchase. Expires Jan 31, 2016. Details.
-
Makerbot Replicator Mini
+
Lenovo U31 with Windows
- -
- MakerWare software is proprietary, restricting freedom and stifling innovation.
-
-
- -
- MakerBot was founded with a more freedom-respecting appraoch, but has since locked down its code and distanced itself from the community that formed around it.
-
+ - Runs on proprietary software that profits from treating the user as a product -- each account is assigned an advertising ID to help Microsoft sell user data.
+
+ - Mandatory Windows updates force users to test potentially unstable new versions. Read more about Windows's abuses.
-
-
+
+
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-
-
+
-
Full-Sized Laptops
+
3D Printers
-
Minifree T400 with GNU/Linux
-
+
Lulzbot Mini
- - As free as can be: runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel operating system and libreboot firmware on hardware that is certified to Respect Your Freedom.
- - Durable hardware is meant to last and easy to repair.
- - Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop.
- SAVE! €100 (approx. $106) off each item, and Minifree will donate to the FSF with each purchase. Expires Jan 31, 2016. Details.
+ - Respects Your Freedom-certified by the FSF to run with all free software, making 3D printing more accessible and encouraging innovation.
+ - Ease of use features like self-leveling and self-cleaning.
+ - Hardware designs available to make modification and improvement easy. Standardized material format allows 3D printing with plastics, wood-, stone-, bamboo-, rubber-, and metal-like materials.
+ - BONUS! Receive a gratis reel of filament when you buy from this guide. Expires Jan 31st, 2015. Details.
-
Apple Macbook Pro with OSX
+
Makerbot Replicator Mini
-
- Runs on proprietary software that restricts the user's freedoms.
+ MakerWare software is proprietary, restricting freedom and stifling innovation.
+
-
- Apple's App Store uses DRM to restrict what you can do with your purchases.
+ MakerBot was founded with a more freedom-respecting philosophy, but has since announced an increasingly proprietary approach and distanced itself from the community that formed around it.
- - Comes crawling with spyware.
+
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Easily separate privacy-sensitive network traffic from Internet traffic to improve security.
As free as can be: runs the FSF-endorsed LibreCMC operating system on hardware that is certified to Respect Your Freedom.
-
SAVE! 5% off any purchase. Expires Jan 29, 2016. Details.
+
SAVE! 5% off any purchase. Expires Jan 29, 2016. Details. FSF members receive 7% off with this code and 5% year-round.
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Amazon can remotely block or delete individual ebooks or your entire library with no warning or explanation (
they've done
it before).
-
Amazon uses DRM
to prevent you from sharing your favorite books with friends or moving them between readers.
-
Amazon openly claims
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ebooks.
+
If you insist on
+purchasing from Amazon, at least designate a charity like the Free
+Software Foundation at smile.amazon.com to receive some of the money.
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FSF Membership Card
- - Join over 3,000 active members working to make a better world built on free software.
+ - Join over 3,500 active members working to make a better world built on free software.
- Enjoy a host of member benefits, including admission to the yearly LibrePlanet conference.
- Membership donations are tax-deductible in the US. For a smaller gift, donate in a friend's name.
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Recommended organizations for holiday donations
-
Electronic Frontier Foundation,
+
Free Software Foundation,
+ Software Freedom Conservancy,
+Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Creative Commons,
- Wikimedia Foundation,
- Software Freedom Conservancy,
- Software Freedom Law Center,
- GNOME Foundation and
- Free Software Foundation.
+
Wikimedia Foundation,
Software Freedom Law Center, and
GNOME Foundation.
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Promotion details
- - Minifree: Receive €100 off each and every T400 or X200 laptop or D16 server board you buy. Enter the discount code FSFGIVINGGUIDE at checkout. Minifree donates €20 (approx. $21) to the FSF for each purchase made with the code.
+ - Minifree: Receive €100 off each and every computer you buy. Enter the discount code FSFGIVINGGUIDE at checkout. Minifree donates €20 (approx. $21) to the FSF for each purchase made with the code.
- Lulzbot:
- Purchase a LulzBot Mini desktop 3D printer through this guide and receive a gratis 1kg reel of standard filament. Email sales@lulzbot.com before purchase and mention the FSF 2015 Giving Guide to receive this promotion. Specify if you'd like HIPS, PLA, or ABS filament. Promotion subject to inventory availability.
- - ThinkPenguin: Use coupon code FSFGIVING15 at checkout. Appies to all items.
+ Purchase a LulzBot Mini desktop 3D printer through this guide and receive a gratis 1kg reel of standard filament. Email sales@lulzbot.com before or during purchasing and mention the FSF 2015 Giving Guide to receive this promotion. Specify if you'd like HIPS, PLA, or ABS filament. Promotion subject to inventory availability.
+ - ThinkPenguin: Use coupon code FSFGIVING15 at checkout. FSF members receive 7% off with this code and 5% year-round. Applies to all items.
- Libiquity: This is a rebate, not a discount at point of sale. After purchase, email your order number to
- sales@libiquity.com and mention the secret password FSFGIVING in your message. You'll receive a refund of 10% of your purchase. Applies to all items.
+ sales@libiquity.com and mention the secret password FSFGIVING in your message. You'll receive a refund of 10% of your subtotal price. Libiquity will donate 5% of each purchase's subtotal price to the FS. Applies to all items.
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