Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide

An anonymous reader writes "On Cyber Monday, millions of Americans will take to the Internet in search of the newest gadgets to bestow upon their loved ones. Most of these 'gifts' are trojan horses that will spy on their recipients, prevent them from doing what they want with their device, or maybe even block access to their favorite books or music. The Free Software Foundation is proud to introduce a map through this minefield: our 2013 Giving Guide. The Giving Guide features gifts that will not only make your recipients jump for joy; these gifts will also protect their freedom."

Comments

Re:Really?

[BitZtream]

Because your techie friends would much rather pick the shit out themselves and not be bound to whatever limited version of some product you pick out because you had to push RMSes politics on your 'friends'.

You're a pretty shitty friend from the sound of it. You don't seem to know much about techies and you seem to think projecting your own personal views/hippie ideology on others is something a friend would do.

Pretty much makes you a selfish jerk pretending to be something other.

Re:Really?

[BitZtream]

... You're an idiot.

Maybe your non-techie family members are different than everyone else's, but in general those non-techie family members will never really figure out their Windows or Macintosh PC, or their iPhone, or Google servicesâ"they're going to lean heavily on their family's designated techie for tech support regardless of what they're using (for learning how to do new things, for remembering how to do things they've done before, and for cleaning up the messes they get themselves into). Might as well give them something that's easier for you to support.

Uhm, you do realize reality is pretty much exactly the opposite of what you just said right ...

Thats why our non-techie family members and friends use those things in the first place.

Grandma and grandpa may have tech issues since they were born before 30 years before the Internet even existed, but pretty much everyone else has figured out the popular products ... that is why those products are popular.