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…
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…
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…
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…
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 support…
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,…
Software Freedom Conservancy
We have decades of free and open source software that are the building blocks of the technology we rely on, all of which is interacting in new ways the implications of which…
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…
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 research, as…
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…