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+ 2014 Holiday Giving Guide | Free Software Foundation | Working together for free software
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Lulzbot TAZ 4.0
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+ Respects Your Freedom-certified by the FSF to run with all free software, making 3D printing more accessible and encouraging innovation.
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+ Supports tetherless printing, optional Dual Extruder upgrade, and exotic filaments including wood-, rubber- and stone-like materials.
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+ Hardware designs available to make modification and improvement easy.
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+ MakerWare software is proprietary, restricting freedom and stifling innovation.
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+ Recently announced an increasingly proprietary approach, further distancing itself from the free software community.
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+ All of the ebooks are gratis, including classics like Peter Pan and Huck Finn.
+ The original purveyor of eBooks free of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), inspiring many others .
+ Enjoy the freedom to read your ebooks on any device.
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+ Apple's App Store uses DRM to restrict what you can do with your purchases.
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+ Comes crawling with spyware .
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+ Planned obsolescence: business model forces you to buy new devices frequently.
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+ Free software, with thriving developer communities.
+ Designed for free formats, but can also open files created in other programs.
+ Wide variety of plugins grants limitless features.
+ Easy to install on all major operating systems.
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+ Proprietary software controlled by Adobe.
+ Prefers locked-down proprietary formats.
+ Requires costly upgrades to stay up to date.
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Trisquel GNU/Linux
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+ FSF-endorsed completely free operating system: transparent and modifiable.
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+ Break the cycle of forced upgrades and planned obsolescence.
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+ Comes with all the software you need and an easy software manager to find more.
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+ Works great with the Wi-Fi adapters in this guide.
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+ Proprietary software that profits from controlling how you use your computer.
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+ Invades privacy and exposes personal data to Microsoft , the NSA, and other malicious attackers.
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+ Dependent on mandatory upgrades and devices that don't support older versions of Windows.
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+ Apple claims (wrongly) that you don't actually own anything you buy from the iTunes store.
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+ Works on used devices, so your dollars won't go to proprietary OS companies. (All commercially
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+ Comes with no shortage of spyware .
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+ iOS is a fully proprietary operating system, giving Apple control over the software on the devices.
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Least Authority File System
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+ Free software system guarantees that you control who sees your data.
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+ Decentralized infrastructure protects from attacks and give you flexibility in how your data is stored.
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+ Client side encryption to prevent snooping, unlike Google Drive, Dropbox, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, and Ubuntu One.
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More devices on h-node
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To learn more about which hardware supports free software and which doesn't, explore the community-run h-node database .
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Licenses
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This page by the Free Software Foundation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported.
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The graphics and photos used on this page have been modified by the Free Software Foundation and are licensed separately under the following terms:
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