It's a place to buy those goods which you need for a throughly adequate lifestyle. All the money goes somewhere or other. We're not actually advising you to email us your credit card number, wait six hours and then report it as stolen. We're just saying that if you did that, we would cut you in on the proceeds.

Goods currently for sale in the Adequacy Shop:

• Executive Linux the Deluxe edition! Be the envy of your MBA class by showing how tech-savvy you are with this maximally elite operating system. Comes in an attractive mahogany box. Included is the latest version of the kernel, the Mandrake Installer, and a free replacement computer. Price $4000

• One Nissan Figaro Owner's Manual, scarcely used, $2.

• K-Mart's own model number 223 fan! 20". $31337

• Natalie Portman poster, soiled, some discoloration, $15.

• Slashdot Moderator Points, $0.10/dozen

• Cheap $3 Crack, approved for use with Slashdot Moderator Points, $3 each. Special offer: Buy two cracks, get one free!

• Kuro5hin Moderator Points, smaller and less popular than Slashdot Moderator Points, but by absolutely no means inferior, $0.05/gross

Due to interventions by a number of agencies, poppy products are no longer for sale at the Adequacy.org shop.

All these items have been endorsed by the Free Software Foundation, in the sense that they support some things, and so do we.