Interesting question in applied ethics – given how successful Child’s Play is, and the relatively dubious nature of its benefits (let’s spend a few hundred dollars on systems and games for kids in the hospital to kill a few hours), is it really better to direct one’s money to Child’s Play rather than the EFF?

If the comparison were to saving African lives by buying scores of bed nets, then it’d be easy to answer. But does the EFF do enough good for FLOSS and freedom and the economy to make it obviously better than getting kids some video games?