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Revision as of 09:37, 19 March 2025

Welcome to the silent memorabilia auction. This is where the silent auction running from March 17 to March 21, 2025 will take place. Learn more at https://www.fsf.org/news/.

How it works

Starting March 17, we will unlock about five new items for bidding every day. Please read the full terms and conditions of this auction, before placing a bid. For instructions on how to place a bid, please watch this video or see the bidding guide. Please don't hesitate to add your bid for an item even if it is lower than a bid someone else put in. We verify bids with some delay. In the end we'll give the item to the highest legitimate bidder.

In order to add your bid you will need to be logged in to my.fsf.org. If you don't have a my.fsf.org account yet you can create a member account (requires financial contribution) or a nonmember account. Please email info@fsf.org if you need technical assistance. Enjoy the thrill of bidding!

Auction items open for bidding

Click on any of the items below and you will be directed to a detailed description and to the page where you can bid on this item.

  • a poster shows a flying gnu next to a flying Tux, both wearing superhero suits which say "GPL"; autographed by RMS and Susanne Lake

    "The Dynamic Duo: The Gnu and the Penguin in flight" poster, autographed by RMS and the artist

  • VT220 on the FSF's front desk

    VT220

  • a muscular gnu

    Bodybuilder gnu - Etienne 1993

  • drawing of GNU Emacs Lisp Gnus

    GNU Emacs Lisp Gnus - Etienne 1990

  • retro poster showing pop-art style photos of Richard M. Stallman, Ken Sakamura, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, Linus Torvalds, J. Craig Venter, and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker

    Takeda Award Forum 2001 poster

  • plush GNU with a black streak down the front and stripes on the side

    Brindled plush gnu from Fiesta

  • glassy award formed like a droplet with the award name engraved

    ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award

  • Amiga3000UX

    Amiga 3000UX

  • a gnu holding a swatter

    Gnu with swatter - Etienne 1998

  • a gnu wearing a computer as a helmet

    Gnu with computer helmet - Etienne 1981

  • gnu pounding away at a typewriter, generating the GNU Manifesto

    GNU Manifesto - Etienne 2009

  • Front of a plush gnu. Gnu is beige with dark tufts of fur, dark hoofs, two curled back horns, and bright blue eyeshadow

    Plush gnu from Steiner

  • a gnu dumping PDP-11 computers

    Gnu dumping PDP-11 computers - Etienne 1992

  • a blue gnu head on a background of ones and zeros and gray and green mainboards as well as floating red, yellow, green, and purple gnus with a gray overlay

    GNU collage by Maxine Farkas, autographed by RMS and the artist

  • a baby gnu sucking its finger

    Baby gnu - Etienne 1994

  • a gnu looking at a waymarker, with signs pointing in the direction of different GNU software packages

    Waymarker - Etienne 2003

  • A framed award with text reading "Presented to Richard Stallman The 2009 Merv Leitch, QC Memorial Visiting Chair University of Calgary Faculty of Law February 3, 2009" with the University of Calgary crest at the bottom

    Merv Leitch, QC, Memorial Lecture award certificate

  • a gnu carefully removes a splinter from a TeX-branded lion's paw

    Gnu and TeX lion - Etienne 1990

  • terminus-est device

    terminus-est

  • a gnu vigorously smashing something with a big hammer

    Gnu with hammer - Etienne 1993

Preview of auction items that will be opened for bidding later this week

The following items are not yet open for bidding. Click on any of the items and you will be directed to a detailed description of the items that will be opened for bidding later this week.

  • A grayed-out photo of a wooden plague with Arabic and English text engraved as well as a Colombe, the outline of Morocco, and some ornaments; a green background is shining through the engraved words

    Association la Colombe pour la promotion du logiciel libre plague 2016

  • a gnu brushing a dog

    Gnu with dog - Etienne 1994

  • Grayed-out photo of a plush wildbeest measuring 12 inches long with horns and tags

    Plush wildebeest from Safe Our Space (SOS)

  • Grayed-out framed award with text reading "International Competition for Cyberarts PRIXARS 2005 Award of Distinction Digital Communities www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Free Software Foundation" with two signatures in the lower corners

    Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction Digital Communities 2005 certificate

  • a gnu herd roaming the savannah, chilling with elephants and giraffes

    Savannah - Etienne 1993

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