Testimonios
Varias renombradas organizaciones internacionales, personas y empresas expresan su apoyo para nuestra misión de preservación del software.
AdaCore
Software has become the essential core of modern technology. Critical software lies at the heart of the power, transportation, and telecommunication networks that must stay in operation for decades. O…
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AdaCore
A longstanding, stable software repository like the Software Heritage is of direct interest to us, since our aerospace and defense customers are often responsible for projects lasting several decades.…
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Adullact
Pythagoras prohibited his disciples to divulge his theories : mathematics was born in secrecy. However, the philosophers of the « Greek miracle » considered that ideas, the universal ones, belonged …
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Bell Labs, Nokia
Software is redefining the whole information and communication infrastructure, and embodies a growing amount of scientific and technical knowledge that is essential for the very existence of our mod…
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CAST Software
CAST is strongly committed to helping any software organization willing to leverage open source artifacts. We are proud to support Software Heritage’s noble mission and to collaborate on creatin…
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CEA
Software is key in CEA’s commitment to transferring knowledge from research to industry. With the Software Heritage Foundation, we stand behind the preservation and sharing of this knowledge. — Al…
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CNRS
El apoyo del CNRS (Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica de Francia) al Software Heritage, un archivo universal, abierto y sostenible de software, es parte natural de nuestro enfoque proactivo…
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Computer History Museum
Software source code is a form of literature, written by humans to be read by humans as well as machines. It gives us a view into the mind of the designer, and studying code can teach us both histor…
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Creative Commons
The commons is made up of many parts, and many movements, with free and open software being an essential element. Archiving and open repositories are vital to a thriving and growing commons, as we n…
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Crossminer
Software preservation is a serious problem, which deserves to be addressed with high priority. Losing source code would mean losing our know-how, experiences, competencies. This would not be acceptabl…
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DANS
Software Sustainability is one of the core elements to accelerate discovery. Reproducibility of scientific results, but also re-usability and findability of software are core principles in science DAN…
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Dirección General de Armamento
«La Dirección General de Armamento apoya el archivo Software Heritage que, mediante la salvaguarda de nuestro patrimonio digital común, nos permite construir el futuro de nuestros sistemas digitale…
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DISI, Università di Bologna
«Software is at the basis of most modern science. The reproducibility of scientific results and the whole concept of scientific research is deeply linked with the preservation and the study of softwa…
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Eclipse Foundation
Software is the fabric which binds our personal, social, industrial, and digital lives. It is an important part of our cultural heritage, as well as a significant portion of the intellectual efforts …
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ENEA
Faithful to its mission of public service, ENEA is proud to establish in its Bologna Center the first italian mirror of Software Heritage, contributing to preserve humankind’s source code, and a…
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Engineering Group
The challenge for an Information Technology industry lies in the preparation of excellence. To achieve this you need to master technologies, be free and make decisions quickly. Software availability i…
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FOSSID
Software is the infrastructure that supports the world in which we live, from the cars we drive to the homes we live in and the way we communicate and conduct business. Inherent in this global, massiv…
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Free Software Foundation
The freedom—and the ability—to build on the work of others is core to free software. Also central is the ability to be nimble and future-proof, to not be hostage to the whims of specific owners or…
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Free Software Foundation Europe
Software is the most important cultural technique of today’s society; it frames what we can and what we cannot do. Software shapes our communication and culture, our economy, education and res…
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French Government (DINSIC)
Open Data is the fuel, and Software is the engine of the digital transformation that is driving change in all aspects of modern societies. By collecting, preserving and sharing all the source code …
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Gandi
From its inception, GANDI has supported open-source projects, including notably VLC, Ubuntu, Gnome, and CaliOpen. GANDI’s primary focus is providing new, high-performance solutions for its cus…
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Gérard Berry
Software is of paramount importance for all our society: our lives, our industry and our well-being have come to literally depend on it. Collecting, preserving and making available all the software i…
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GitHub
El software codifica el conocimiento humano en una forma legible por una máquina y juega un papel crítico en muchas industrias y sectores, pero con frecuencia se pasa por alto su conservación. Esto…
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GitHub
Software encodes human knowledge in a machine-readable form and plays a critical role in many industries and sectors but its preservation is often overlooked. I’m excited to see what the Softwar…
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GitLab
GitLab applauds the Software Heritage project for keeping open source software available for future generations. We believe everyone should contribute to preserve the software commons and a coordina…
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Free and open source software has always been a vital part of Google, as we use and contribute to thousands of projects. It encourages the development of innovative new technology, and opens doors for…
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Huawei
Huawei’s vision is to build a better connected world. Through open partnerships and customer-centric innovation, Huawei produces world-leading networking and IT products, cloud services, software,…
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Huawei
Huawei ha trabajado con comunidades de código abierto durante décadas: contribuye activamente a proyectos como Linux, computación en nube, aprendizaje automático y muchos otros. Huawei seguirá au…
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IEEE Software
I read with great interest the proposal to create a public archive of software artifacts and associated metadata as a way to grow a universal body of scientific and technical knowledge. As Editor-in-…
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IFIP
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a global non-profit, non-political federation of societies of ICT professionals that aims to achieve the worldwide professional and so…
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INAPI
El Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial de Chile-INAPI apoya entusiastamente el proyecto Software Heritage, pues en la era digital y la sociedad del conocimiento la gestión de bases de datos y …
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Informatics Europe
With this letter we would like to express Informatics Europe’s support to the “Software Heritage” project. Informatics Europe fully support the projects’ mission of collecting, organising, pre…
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Inria
Software is now at the heart of the majority of human activities: from healthcare to entertainment, planes to agriculture… It is therefore legitimate for Inria to address the issue of preserving…
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Insignary
Open Source is the foundation of all modern sophisticated software development. It powers everything from the smallest embedded devices to critical national infrastructure. The Software Heritage proje…
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Intel
Intel viene estando en la vanguardia del desarrollo de la open source desde hace casi dos décadas y hoy es un gran contribuidor en el kernel de Linux, así como en decenas de proyectos líderes en …
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Jason Scott
Software has become the new architecture that our world is built on, and source code its blueprints. Without this vital component of history, we suffer a range of loss: of culture, of understanding, a…
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Jean-François Abramatic
Software is the key to universal access to our web of information. Software has become an essential component of our daily lives. Software must be collected, organized, preserved and shared. We need t…
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MESRI
The National Open Science Plan was launched on 4 July 2018 by the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. This plan includes a provision to support Software Heritage, an initiative th…
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Microsoft
Microsoft has been involved in open source initiatives by enabling, integrating, releasing and contributing to many open source projects and communities for well over a decade. We applaud the Software…
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NLnet Foundation
Software Heritage has set itself the important task of curating software for the long run at a global scale, and to safeguard the long term availability of these bits carefully crafted for all inten…
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Open Invention Network
The creation of a uniform database of open source code is a critical first step in being able to understand the scope and breadth of open source innovation. As the largest patent non-aggression commun…
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Open Invention Network
El software de código abierto ha sido una de las fuerzas instrumentales e impulsoras de la innovación en este siglo. Software Heritage es una importante organización para el software, habiendo arch…
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Open Source Initiative
The fundamental advantage of open source software is the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute existing work, accelerating innovation into the future. The Open Source Initiative is pleased to suppo…
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OW2
Open source is making the way we develop, share and maintain software and even do business with it more open, transparent, fair and efficient for the benefit of all. While software is revolutionizin…
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Red Hat
As the largest open source company in the world, we’ve spent more than two decades collaborating on community projects and protecting open source licenses so we can continue to develop software that…
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Scanoss
SCANOSS proporciona identificación e inteligencia precisas de código abierto para ayudar a las organizaciones a gestionar su software de código abierto, reducir los riesgos de las licencias y mejor…
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Scuola Normale Superiore
The Scuola Normale Superiore is proud to contribute to the mission of the Software Heritage, born thanks to the pioneering intuition of professor Roberto Di Cosmo, a former student in Informatics of t…
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Serge Abiteboul
Software embodies a large part of all the technical and scientific knowledge that is being developed today. Software Heritage will create the largest public archive of software artifacts, which is an …
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Simon Phipps
Open source software is now the assumed default for the IT industry and for every computer user. It is also here to stay for the foreseeable future. We now need to secure past open source achievements…
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