Karen Sandler
Software Freedom as a Medical Problem
The Software Freedom Conservancy, and asking to read her own pacemaker
Rating
85Impact score
Domains
Software freedomLicensing enforcementNonprofit governance
Scouting report
Executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, which provides the legal and financial home for a long list of open source projects and does the unglamorous work of GPL enforcement. A lawyer with a heart condition, she has made the argument for auditable code concrete by asking to see the source of the defibrillator implanted in her chest, and being refused.
Curator’s note
The strongest argument for source access anyone has: her own heart.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Karen Sandler by Ranjithsiji, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Karen Sandler en.wikipedia.org
- 02Software Freedom Conservancy sfconservancy.org