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* A growing support
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** What they say of Software Heritage
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*** Serge Abiteboul (Academie de Science)
     # 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 essential infrastructure to grow and disseminate a universal body of knowledge.
*** Jean-Francois Abramatic (ancien directeur du W3C)
     # 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 the Software Heritage project/ to make this goal a reality.
*** Mike Milinkovich (Executive Director, 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 of humanity since the invention of the
    # digital computer.

    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to support this important effort to
    preserve and protect humanity's software legacy.
*** Nenad Medvidovic (Chair, ACM Sigsoft)
    # Software is now present everywhere. It is a pillar of our modern societies, and the source code
    # of this software embodies our scientific and technological knowledge. In a word, it is our DNA.
    We fully support the objective of the Software Heritage project to create a comprehensive public
    archive of software artifacts.
*** Diomidis Spinellis (Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Software)
    I wish to express my wholehearted support for the Software Heritage
    project. 
    # The vision of IEEE Software is building the community of leading
    # software practitioners. The long-term preservation of our community’s work
    # and achievements can be an important element for realizing our vision.
*** Carlo Ghezzi (President, Informatics Europe)
    We would like to express Informatics Europe’s support to the “Software
    Heritage” project.  

    # Informatics Europe fully support the projects’ mission
    # of collecting, organising, preserving and sharing all the software that lies
    # at the heart of our culture and our society by creating a largest, curated,
    # and public archive of software artifacts, together with extensive metadata.
*** Simon Phipps (ancien président d'OSI)
    # 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 ...
    # , not only because they are part of
    # human history, but also because they will come in handy centuries from now to
    # read today's data.  
    The Software Heritage project will be the key actor in
    making such preservation possible.