This is a moving and engaging presentation given by Karen Sandler, executive director of the GNOME foundation, at OSCON 2011. After she received a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy diagnosis, she realized that the source code running her defribrillator implant was closed, proprietary, and unregulated by the FDA. She does a great job outlining the numerous implications closed-source software has for health and life issues now as well as in the near future. Her call for the extension of free and open source software to medical devices as well as the ones used in cars, voting machines and financial markets is also very interesting.
“I want my heart to be open”
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