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- <h1>2014 Holiday Giving Guide</h1>
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- <h2> Are you giving your loved ones holiday gifts they can use freely, or gifts which put someone else </h2>
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- <p>
- Electronics are popular gifts for the holidays, but
- people often overlook the restrictions that
- manufacturers slip under the wrapping paper. Companies
- like Microsoft and Apple can and will use Digital
- Restrictions Management (DRM) to
- prevent your loved ones from sharing apps on the
- laptop you got them or remixing the songs on their
- expensive new iPad. If the recipient of your gift
- is as unlucky as one woman last year,
-
- <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/node/2250">
- Amazon might even block all the books on their
- Kindle and refuse to explain why
- </a>.
-
- Companies want us to accept this kind of intrusive
- control, but when you think about, it's unethical
- (and annoying!).
- </p>
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- <h2>Give freely</h2>
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- <p>
- The good news is, for every device that uses DRM or
- has a remote "kill switch" like the Kindle, ethical
- companies have made a better one that doesn't, one
- that your loved ones will be free to enjoy however
- they wish. Here's a list of these smarter gifts,
- compared with their more well-known, but more
- restrictive alternatives. While you're reading, please
- remember that donating to a charity in your friend or
- family member's name is at least as meaningful as
- buying them an electronic device. Some of our favorite
- charities are the
-
- <a href="http://www.eff.org/">
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- </a>,
- <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org/">
- Creative Commons
- </a>,
- <a href="http://wikimedia.org/">
- Wikimedia Foundation
- </a>,
- <a href="http://www.sfconservancy.org/">
- Software Freedom Conservancy
- </a>,
- <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">
- Software Freedom Law Center</a>,
- <a href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Foundation</a>
- and
- <a href="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>.
- </p>
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- <h2>The Free Software Foundation's Holiday Giving Guide</h2>
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- <p>
- The gifts in the left column respect your freedom much
- more than those in the right column.
- </p>
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- <p>
- <i>
- Please
- <a href="http://www.fsf.org/share?u=http://www.fsf.org/givingguide&t=Give%20tech%20gifts%20that%20support%20user%20freedom%20">
- share the Giving Guide
- </a>
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- with your friends and family members, especially
- those that might give you presents! (We're using the hashtag
- #givefreely.)
- </i>
- </p>
-
- <p>
- To make a really big splash, get some friends
- together, print the
- <a href="https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/misc/GivingGuide2013.pdf">
- PDF version of the Giving Guide
- </a>
- and hand it out near a local store that sells
- DRM-encumbered products. Be sure to take photos!
-
- Send us photos and any questions at
- <a href="mailto:campaigns@fsf.org">
- campaigns@fsf.org
- </a>.
- </p>