Charitable Donations for 2008

By EricMesa

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This year I decided to mainly support technological causes.  I donated to the F ree Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  I think that rms and the rest over at the FSF are really doing a lot of great work to preserve our freedoms.  I especially like the Defective by Design campaign they’ve been running.  So this year they get the lion’s share of my money.

The EFF has been doing a lot of work with other things I care about such as opposing the broadcast flag and overall protecting our electronic and Internet freedoms.

Finally, I donated to NPR because I enjoy their programming every day and I thought it was time to help keep them afloat.  This was especially urgent as Congress has recently been reducing the mount of funding they give to public broadcasting, a real shame.

I was going to donate to the Gnome foundation this year, but after their blunder with their support of OOXML and other moves that seem to legitimize Microsoft’s shady actions, I decided to withhold any funds from them this year.  There are only two ways to vote in the Free Software world, with programming talent and with money.  They get neither from me for 2008.

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