Opinion Software Freedom Conservancy's (SFC) Executive Director Karen Sandler was last year awarded an honorary doctorate by Belgium's Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her work for open source and software freedom. There was only one problem. Her heart was beating strangely, and she couldn't get the data out of her implanted pacemaker/defibrillator proprietary software to find out what was going on. She was forced to make a life-or-death decision that would have been much easier were it not fo...