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Free/libre solutions to address the shortage of ventilators

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Robert L. Read, PhD, has been a free software fan since 1988, and has taken that passion with him into director-level positions in the software industry and a Presidential Innovation Fellowship. His current project, Public Invention, aims to spur a movement for free hardware inventions, and in the last year, has dedicated itself to a goal of free-as-in-freedom ventilators, to save lives during the coronavirus epidemic.

This talk focuses on Public Invention’s efforts to coalesce the hundreds of attempts to create free/libre solutions for the ventilator shortage. Their conclusion is that the overall effect was mixed in terms of success developing ventilators, but very successful in advancing the global free hardware community.

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This talk was presented at LibrePlanet.

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LibrePlanet is the Free Software Foundation's annual conference. The FSF campaigns for free/libre software, meaning it respects users' freedom and community. We believe that users are entitled to this; all software should be free.

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That term was coined to reject our views. It refers to similar practices, but usually presented solely as advantageous, without talking of right and wrong.

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Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 by announcing development of the free operating system, GNU. By 1992, GNU was nearly operational; one major essential component was lacking, the kernel.

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In 1992, Torvalds freed the kernel Linux, which filled the last gap in GNU. Since then, the combined GNU/Linux system has run in millions of computers. Nowadays you can buy a new computer with a totally free GNU/Linux system preinstalled.

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