Elizabeth Chamberlain: The Future of the Right to Repair and Free Software
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-04-17 15:07:22 UTC
- Modified: 2023-04-17 15:07:22 UTC
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Summary: A day ago this LibrePlanet non-keynote talk from Elizabeth Chamberlain was uploaded by the FSF, about a month after the in-person talk (slides here); From the page: "Dr. Elizabeth Chamberlain is Director of Sustainability at iFixit, which is the free repair manual for everything, with over 90,000 guides for fixing everything from tractors to toasters. Liz advocates for the Right to Repair around the world, supporting lawmakers, conducting repair research, and working to make sure environmental standards reflect repair best practices. Her writing on repair has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The Atlantic."
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