OSCON 2011: Karen Sandler

Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation)

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Science & Technology

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[ps3code]

Never thought the open source was so important, considering how we rely on computers and mainly software in all aspects in our lives.

[pete275]

THINK OF THE CHILDREN (btw I wouldn't give that gnome to my children, they should learn how to use the command line first).

[hugooc]

LOVED IT!

Karen makes some excellent points. She is a bright example of the new wave of patients Cardiac Disease Management companies will have to consider in the years to come. As an ICD patient myself, and one who's been fighting for access to the data in my implantable device, it's exciting to see a movement emerge!

[vishal8492]

Wow amazing video I'm becoming fan of her awesome .

[MrCruyffTurn]

@eekeenoink As opposed to, say, Windows XP? :-)

[MrCruyffTurn]

@hackenschmidt I tried Gnome 3 for about a week - thought it was too... I dunno, gimicky, went back to Gnome 2 for a few days and missed it terribly, felt Gnome 2 was like driving a 50s Ford or something, so reinstalled Gnome 3 - I ain't ever going back. Try it for a while, you might learn to like it (although knowing the keyboard shortcuts is crucial for me).

[k0k090]

play deus ex 3, enjoy!

[Jizhong2008]

Free is always nice. But I think the key is transparency that matters the most.

[eekeenoink]

Some day someone is going to do for software quality what Stallman has done for software freedom. When they do, Gnome and much other Gnu software is going to be hit very hard, because for all the bug fixing, for all the eyes on the code, the design quality is still piss-poor.

I'm sorry to hear the quality of medical implant software is so poor, but there is no way in hell I would run my heart on Gnome or even glibc.

[hackenschmidt]

Gnome 3: Nice to look at, a nightmare to use..

[r36706]

Yes, but.... Who is going to develop pacemakers or any other software dependant hardware if their source code should be open (which shows a lot of how hardware works), and can easily be "improved"?

[paldepind]

@tky011 I definitely agree. What I don't agree with is the Stallman "everything has to be free or else I will not use it" way of thinking. Not that you expreced that view.