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Even geeks deserve those really odd stocking fillers

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Fast becoming the holy grail of geek shoppers, Thinkgeek.com has quickly expanded from open-source T-shirts and mugs to a whole range of products for the discerning computer user.

It is selling books, electronics, posters and toys, among other things - enough merchandise on offer to cover a Christmas shopping list in one stop. If I could persuade my relatives to order online, this is where I would send them.

Thinkgeek's chief rival is another open-source promoter Copyleft.net

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Aside from its excellent range of shirts and gadgets, one very compelling reason to shop at Copyleft this year is DVD-CSS.

DVD-CSS is the open-source program developed by a teenage Linux user to view DVD movies on his computer. Before the source was available, DVDs could only be played on Windows or Apple computers.

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During the course of the past year, a Hollywood copyright group has brought lawsuits against hundreds of Web sites, software distributors and publishers for sharing the code.

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