Let's buy Eric Raymond an iPod (and support Rockbox and the FSF at the same time!)

Eric needs help. At LinuxWorld SF 2006, he said "We have a serious problem. Whenever I try to pitch Linux to anyone under 30, the question I get is: 'Will it work with my iPod? We are not yet as a community making the painful compromises need to achieve widespread desktop market share. Until we do, we will get locked out of more hardware." - it seems Eric needs someone to send him a virtual hug, by way of an iPod. He can plug it into his GNU/Linux computer and he'll see just how well free software can work with his new toy. Maybe he'll even add support for it in Fetchmail.

This site requires a minimum of $500 to be raised, so we'll buy him the best iPod we can with the money - The remainder of the money will be split between Rockbox and Free Software Foundation.

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(Thanks to Everybody Loves Eric Raymond for the image.)