Témoignages
Un certain nombre d’organisations internationales, d’individus et de sociétés de renommée mondiale ont manifesté leur soutien à notre mission de préservation des logiciels.
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
Le soutien du CNRS à Software Heritage, archive universelle, ouverte et pérenne du logiciel, s’inscrit naturellement dans notre démarche volontariste en faveur de la science ouverte, cette révol…
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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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Direction générale de l’armement – DGA
« La direction générale de l’armement soutient l’initiative Software Heritage qui, à travers la sauvegarde de notre patrimoine numérique commun, permet de construire le futur de nos systèmes…
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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 soft…
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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
Les logiciels encodent les connaissances humaines dans un format lisible par une machine et jouent un rôle critique dans de nombreux secteurs et industries mais on omet souvent d’assurer leur prés…
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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 travaille avec les communautés open source depuis des décennies et contribue activement à des projets allant du noyeau Linux, au cloud computing et au machine learning. Huawei continuera à …
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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
The National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile-INAPI enthusiastically supports the Software Heritage project, because in the digital age and the knowledge society, the caretaking of freely ac…
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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
Le logiciel est désormais au cœur de la plupart des activités humaines: de la santé au divertissement, de l’aéronautique à l’agriculture … Il est donc légitime qu’Inria …
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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 a été à l’avant-garde du développement de l’open source pendant près de vingt ans et elle contribue aujourd’hui grandement au noyau Linux, ainsi qu’à une douzaine d…
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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
Le Plan national pour la science ouverte, lancé le 4 juillet 2018 par la ministre de l’enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l’innovation, a décidé d’un soutien à Software Heritage,…
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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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Nokia Bell Labs
Les logiciels redéfinissent entièrement l’infrastructure de l’information et de la communication et représentent une quantité croissante de connaissances techniques et scientifiques qui sont e…
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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
Le logiciel libre a été l’un des moteurs de l’innovation de ce siècle. Software Heritage est une organisation importante pour les logiciels, ayant déjà archivé plus de 6 milliards de…
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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 propose des services précis d’identification et d’information sur les logiciels libres afin d’aider les organisations à gérer leurs logiciels libres, à réduire les risqu…
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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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