Use #givefreely. You might get a gift out of it!
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- Help a free software organization in a friend's name. + Donate to our suggested charities in your friend/family member's name
Smartphones
- Galaxy S3 with Replicant
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+ Galaxy Note 2 with Replicant
Technoethical + Technoethical @@ -216,7 +188,7 @@Get it from
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Your smartphone isn't just a phone--it's a computer you carry with you every day. It's your camera, your connection to your friends and family, and, for many people around the world, their only internet-enabled device. By choosing one of these phones, you're bringing freedom to your pocket, not just your communications.
- +Why it's cool: Ever feel like every time you pick up your smartphone, someone is watching you? This may not cut off their access entirely, but it will make their job a little harder.
+ +Your smartphone is so much more than a phone: it's a tiny computer you carry with you every day, and for many people around the world, it's their only internet-enabled device. Choosing one of these phones lets you bring software freedom everywhere you go.
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In addition to Technoethical's refurbished S3, they also offer an S2 and N2.
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- + Runs the Replicant free operating system, based on Android.
- Features F-Droid, the free software catalogue that makes it easy to get all the applications you need without sacrificing control of your phone. @@ -255,7 +220,7 @@
- Note: While the main processor is exclusively running free software, the modem processor runs a Samsung nonfree system.
Stay away from: iPhones!
+Stay away from: iPhones
- Comes with no shortage of spyware.
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Laptops and Tablets
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Setting up a fully free system is easier than it used to be, but can still seem daunting--especially if you've never done it before. Luckily, you can now get a new-to-you laptop that's ready to go out of the box.
-While we're highlighting the follow laptops, there are other options available.
-Why it's cool: You need a reliable computer for work and play. This one is just dandy for both, minus icky DRM and spyware.
+Setting up a fully free system is easier than it used to be, but can still seem daunting -- especially if you've never done it before. Luckily, you can now get a new-to-you laptop that's ready to go out of the box.
+Technoethical also has a T400s available.
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- Runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel operating system and libreboot firmware.
- Durable hardware is meant to last and is easy to repair.
- Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop. @@ -350,7 +322,7 @@
Setting up a fully free system is easier than it used to be, but can still seem daunting--especially if you've never done it before. Luckily, you can now get a new-to-you laptop that's ready to go out of the box.
-While we're highlighting the follow laptops, there are other options available.
Compact Laptops
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X200 with GNU/Linux
+ + + Technoethical- Technoethical's X200 has not yet been evaluated for Respects Your Freedom certification, but global shipping is available. Sale details. + Technoethical's X200 is Respects Your Freedom certified. Global shipping is available. Sale details.
- + Vikings ++ Viking's X200 is Respects Your Freedom certified. Global shipping is available. Sale details. + +
+- Technoethical's X200 has not yet been evaluated for Respects Your Freedom certification, but global shipping is available. Sale details. + Technoethical's X200 is Respects Your Freedom certified, and global shipping is available. Sale details.
-+ Viking's X200 is Respects Your Freedom certified. Global shipping is available. Sale details.
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Why it's cool: Take it to the office, take it to the cafe, take it to class, take it home and set it up on the counter so you can listen to NPR while you cook. Do all of this the easy way.
+This machine is made to go everywhere with you, and thanks to Libiquity and Technoethical, you can have your mobility and your freedom too.
- Lenovo U31 with Windows
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- Runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel operating system with libreboot firmware. The X200 sold by Libiquity is also certified to Respect Your Freedom.
- Durable hardware is meant to last and is easy to repair.
- Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop. -
- Runs on proprietary software that restricts the user's freedoms. @@ -437,126 +419,143 @@
- Great for all-free-software installations on laptops with incompatible Wi-Fi hardware. If you use a laptop listed in this guide, an adapter like this won't be necessary. -
- Certified to Respect Your Freedom. +
- Runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel operating system with libreboot firmware. +
- Durable hardware is meant to last and is easy to repair. +
- Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop. +
- 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.
- Runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel operating system with libreboot firmware. -
- Durable hardware is meant to last and is easy to repair. -
- Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop. +
- Options of coming with the FSF-endorsed Trisquel or Parabola operating systems. +
- Choose between corebook and Libreboot. +
- Customize and specialize to your needs. +
- 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. +
- Intel Management Engine is a little piece of firmware that performs various tasks while computers are booting, running, and sleeping. This poses a major security risk and threat to user freedom. While there's not actually anything that can be done about Intel ME at the moment, it's good to know what's lurking inside your computer. +
- Mandatory Windows updates force users to test potentially unstable new versions. Read more about Windows's abuses.
- Respects Your Freedom-certified by the FSF to run with all free software, making 3D printing more accessible and encouraging innovation. -
- Performance and seamless interface earned it "Editor's Choice" in Tom's Guide's 2016 3D printer comparison. -
- Hardware designs available to make customization easy. Standardized material format allows 3D printing with plastics, wood-, stone-, bamboo-, rubber-, and metal-like materials. +
- - MakerWare software is proprietary, restricting freedom and stifling innovation. - - -
- - 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. - +
- Great for all-free-software installations on laptops with incompatible Wi-Fi hardware. +
- Certified to Respect Your Freedom. +
- Options from Technoethical and ThinkPenguin. +
- If you use a laptop listed in this guide, an adapter like this won't be necessary.
- More powerful than its smaller cousin, and can be further upgraded with a larger antenna.
- Certified to Respect Your Freedom. +
- Multiple options from Technoethical and ThinkPenguin.
- 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. -
- - 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 - you don't actually own or control your ebooks. - -
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The Free Software Foundation, as a small publisher of - books, recommends not purchasing on Amazon. If you do, please use smile.amazon.com to designate a nonprofit to receive some of the money.
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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. -
- Proprietary software controlled by Adobe. -
- Shuts down when its DRM is unable to verify the costly required subscription, even if it's actually up to date. -
- Prefers locked-down proprietary formats. -
- Designed to complement your existing router by providing a VPN that enhances privacy and security and circumvents network controls.
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- 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. -
- Performance and seamless interface earned it "Editor's Choice" in Tom's Guide's 2016 3D printer comparison. +
- Hardware designs available to make customization easy. Standardized material format allows 3D printing with plastics, wood-, stone-, bamboo-, rubber-, and metal-like materials. +
- + MakerWare software is proprietary, restricting freedom and stifling innovation. + +
- + 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. + +
- Delphi Classics has a wide range of classic literature available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Use the code fsfdelphi for 30% off orders over $10 through the end of December. +
- Ediciones Babylon can supply you with all of your Spanish language needs for comics, art, novellas, and novels. Use the code FSFDISCOUNTEB for 5% off all the way through March 2018. +
- No Starch Press specializes in educational, instructional, and how-to books on everything from arduinos to system administration. Use the code ETHICTECH for 40% off through January 10th, 2018. +
- Amazon is one of the most notorious of DRM offenders. Whether it's their Kindle e-reader or their countless DRM-encumbered ebooks, Amazon is the place to go if you want to let someone else snatch away texts from your personal library. +
- Where's O'Reilly? While the publisher's ebooks are still available from third party sellers (in both DRM-free and DRM-encumbered formats), O'Reilly themselves stopped selling their DRM-free catalogue earlier in 2017. +
- Good Old Games thinks you should not just be able to play with your friends, but share with them. They carry all kinds of games -- action, adventure, RPGs, strategy game s-- and even movies specially for gamers. +
- Humble Bundle first made its name with pay-what-you-want DRM-free books, and have since expanded to a whole range of games. +
- We'd be remiss to not mention Nethack, a game well loved by many gamers and free software nerds. A classic roguelike with a classic, freedom-respecting license, there's no reason to not feel good sharing this game. +
- DRM on everything (except music) controls what you can do with your purchases. - +
- Over the years XBox has gone back and forth with their use of DRM with a current pro-DRM stance. It's best to just stay away since we can never tell when they're just going to change their minds . +
- A quick note on Sony: The PlayStation 4 runs games DRM-free. However, there is enough nonfree software running on the system that we cannot recommend it in good conscience. +
- Apple claims (wrongly) that you don't actually own anything you buy from the iTunes store. -
- Requires proprietary software to use, even to download DRM-free music. - -
- Dischord Records, a classic punk label providing music since 1980. +
- Folkways, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institute. +
- Merge Records, home to Grammy-winning and well-loved indie darlings. +
- Nine Inch Nails +
- They Might Be Giants +
- ComedyDirect can make you laugh while storing your videos locally. +
- Moving Image Archive is a section of Archive.org containing thousands of film releases, available to stream or download. +
- Sintel has a huge selection of DRM-free films made with free software. +
- WolfeOnDemand provides for all of your LGBTQ watching desires. +
- LulzBot: Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts are available through their site. +
- ThinkPenguin: 5% discount on all products is available to FSF members fsfftw. +
- Vikings: 5% discount on all products and services between now and February 1, 2018. Help the FSF! Vikings will also make a donation for each product purchased using this code. Use the coupon code fsfftw. + +
- X200, T400, iPhone, and ISP-provided router images are in the public domain.
- LulzBot 3D printer photo by Aleph Objects is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. -
- FSF USB membership card by FSF is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. -
- iTunes gift card is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.
- ThinkPenguin with GNU and both ThinkPenguin router images by ThinkPenguin are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. -
- Macbook Pro PSD by andrew-gw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. -
- Astounding Stories is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. -
- The Inkscape and GIMP logos are licensed under the GNU General Public License. -
- The Amazon, iOS, YouTube, Google Drive and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator logos are registered trademarks. -
- Technoethical Replicant s3, Wi-Fi Dongle, and X200t by Technoethical 2016-2017 licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. -
- The Lenovo U31 image is copyright Lenovo. -
- LibreTea computer with modular chassis image by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton licensed underCC BY 4.0. -
- The MakerBot logo is copyright MakerBot Industries. -
- The Least Authority logo is copyright Least Authority Enterprises. -
- Microsoft Surface 2 by KÄrlis DambrÄns licensed under CC By 2.0. -
- Technoethical Replicant N2, Wi-Fi Dongle, and X200t by Technoethical 2016-2017 licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. +
- LibreTea computer with modular chassis image by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton licensed underCC BY 4.0.
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Stay away from: Apple
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Why it's cool: Use it as a laptop or as a tablet with a built-in stylus. It may not be a brand-new concept, but it'll always feel a little futuristic.
+ +Enjoy all the portability of a tablet, without having to hunt-and-peck every letter when it comes time to do some work. It's versatile, multi-purpose, and stylish, and fits smoothly into every environment in your life (without pummeling you with the abuses of proprietary software).
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Convertible Laptops/Tablets
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- X200t with GNU/Linux
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+ D16 Workstation with GNU/Linux
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Why it's cool: Sometimes you need heavy-duty computing power that a laptop just can't provide.
+ +Gamers, video editors, and other users may want or need a more powerful machine â a desktop is the answer when you really need that extra push. Also good for users who want a bigger screen.
+Vikings offers three desktop computers. (ThinkPenguin also has desktops.)
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- LulzBot Mini
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Why it's cool: Trying to go 100% free? Do it the easy way â just plug this into your USB port and you're ready to go.
- Makerbot Replicator Mini
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eBooks
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Why it's cool: Think ahead -- if you give this to your friend or relative, they might use it next year to make YOU a gift.
+ +3D printers are an amazing learning and exploration tool for kids and a fun toy for grownups, and they've come a long way from their origins in the early 2000s. Keep it free and fun by digging into the zillions of free software options for modeling, and communities that share freely licensed designs.
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Books, Games, Music, and Video
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There are a lot of options for where to get your literature fix without any pesky DRM. We're highlighting some publishers and shops who are offering deals for you!
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Gaming systems have adopted all sorts of DRM technologies, allowing gaming companies to limit your access to games and even the ability to brick whole systems. However, there's hope in the wide world of DRM-free games!
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Many consider music essential to the richness of the human experience. Thanks to the many artists, producers, record labels, and shops highlighted on Defective by Design, the rights-respecting options are nearly endless. Check out music from great labels and artists, including:
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Stay away from: Spotify
+DRM is the unfortunate standard for so much major-label music that's available today. While Spotify certainly isn't the only offender, they're the one we are choosing to highlight.
+In addition to streaming music encumbered by DRM, people who want to use Spotify are required to install additional proprietary software. Spotify's build for GNU/Linux is available as a Debian package that requires Debian non-free and comes with "onerous license conditions."
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As winter comes to the Northern Hemisphere, it's the perfect time to curl up under a blanket and watch some DRM-free video. In the Southern Hemisphere? Enjoy relaxing with a great movie actually owned by you.
+You can find your DRM-free video fix at places including:
+Stay away from: Netflix
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Whether it's using major studios as scapegoats for using DRM or pushing for DRM as an official W3C Recommendations, Netflix has been at the front line of getting DRM into media online and in your home.
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+ +Respects Your Freedoms
The FSF certifies hardware as respecting your freedoms. There is a complete list of RYF products on FSF.org.
-We would never recommend you use, run, or give proprietary software. However, one part of RYF certification is the promise that one can install any software they wish on the device. This includes proprietary software. Free software is about many things, including the right to choose what is on your device. We urge you to keep your gifts and own devices fully free--it's not only the responsible thing, but the right thing.
+The FSF certifies hardware that respects your freedoms. These items arrive installed with free software, and you can see a complete list of RYF products on FSF.org.
+We would never recommend you use, run, or give proprietary software. However, one part of RYF certification is the promise that one can install any software they wish on the device. This includes proprietary software. Free software is about many things, including the right to choose what is on your device. We urge you to keep your gifts and own devices fully free -- it's not only the responsible thing, but the right thing.