The home team is joined by Heather Meeker, a specialist with a deep history in the world of open-source software licensing. Heather tells the home team how the open-source landscape has changed since the 1990s, how access to air conditioning helped nudge her into a computing career, and how, when her dad worked in a computer lab in the 1960s, his work was considered so esoteric that she used to tell people he was a spy. (Can we bring that back?)
Episode notes:
Heather is a General Partner at
OSS Capital
, which provides VC backing to seed-stage COSS (commercial open source) startups. Her
law practice
focuses on intellectual property and open-source licensing, and she serves on the
IEEE-ISTO
Board of Directors.
Connect with Heather on
LinkedIn
or explore her work on her
website
.
Today’s
Lifeboat badge
goes to user
keshlam
for their answer to the question
Why do we need abstract classes in Java?
.
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