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Note: This page is not the guide; The guide is at fsf.org/givingguide. This page is for giving recommendations of products we should consider for the guide. The items listed here should not be taken as FSF recommendations.
Each year the FSF publishes a giving guide with recommendations of products that respect your freedom. This group is a place for you to provide your ideas for the buying guide.
Thanks for helping your fellow FSF members make ethical choices this holiday season. Happy holidays!
| device | freedom-hostile/unethical | relatively civil-liberties-respecting alternative | notes/references |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPUs | Intel, AMD, Marvell | MediaTek (ARM) | Intel is worse than AMD and Marvell, but avoid all. |
| DiY embedded systems | Raspberry Pi | OLinuXino, Arduino?, Beagleboard? | |
| e-book readers (w/e-paper) | Sony eReader | OLPC tabletorOLPC laptop (dual-mode displays; free-OS preinstalled) | |
| gaming (full console) | wii | ? | |
| gaming (portable) | PlayStation Portable (PSP) | Pandora (console)? | |
| mobile phones | Apple, HP, Sony, Samsung | Fairphone, Blackphone, list of OSS phones | All mobile phones are tracking devices and thus a bad idea to have at all. They're all unethical to different extents. This row exists only to indicate the lesser of evils to consumers not disciplined enough to avoid mobile phones entirely. |
| PCs/laptops | Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Samsung, Sony | OLPC, Asus (AMD-based). | Clevo & Librem are almost ethical, but they feed intel |
| printers | all others | Oki | For detailed ethical rationale, see which printer and scanner brands are ethical. |
| scanners | all others | Umax, Mustek, Doxie, Avision | For detailed ethical rationale, see which printer and scanner brands are ethical. |
| tablet PCs | iPad | OLPC tablet |
note: OLPCs are hard to buy, but if you can get one they are far more ethical than the alternatives.
See the long list of freedom-hostile brands.
(Note: giving someone software might be more inconvenient for that person than if they just got it themself in their preferred way.)
"issue" is not in the list (interest, location, project, school) of allowed values for the "Organized around" property.
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