Open Source Gift Guide endorses Magnatune

Magnatune is listed in Make Magazine's Open Source Gift Guide and strongly endorsed. Here is what they write:

Magnatune always shares half of their proceeds with the artists they distribute, they provide you with multiple download options, including OGG, FLAC, and even uncompressed digital audio (as well as a variety of MP3 options), they license music freely to non-profit and open projects (including a generous, free podcast license; the notion of 'non-profit' is not limited to the strict legal definition. Get music and/or make a donation.

I was happy to see the EFF chime in with their endorsement of the Open Source Gift Guide, as well as specifically pull out Magnatune as worthy of mention:

The Gifts that Keep on Giving (and Sharing, and Reusing - and Campaigning)

Make magazine's Open Source Gift Guide is an eye-opening collection of the products and services that aid your freedom to tinker, share, improve and learn seriously. Some of the goods offered are more aspirational than practical holiday gifts: you'll be hard put to track down the OpenMako unrestricted GSM phone, or Chumby, Bunnie Huang and co's prototype hackable alarm clock, in time for Christmas. But popular open products from Neuros, Magnatune's DRM-free FLAC audio, the open source MediaPortal Windows media center, and Rockbox, the free firmware replacement for most MP3 players, show just how vibrant a market can be when it casts off DRM shackles and sets about re-asserting user control. And then there's Make's highly sensible suggestion of a $100 donation to the EFF - the perfect gift for those few friends of yours who aren't already members.