slightly off-topic: support open source for publically-funded research

[Alex Lancaster]

This is only very slightly off-topic, but pretty relevant for a lot of
us in academia developing software, particularly Swarm applications...

"Petition to Public Funding Agencies: Support Open Source Software"

 http://www.openinformatics.org/dsp_petition.php

It's a petition to make software developed through research funded
through public grants (NIH/NSF grants etc.) to be able to released as
open source software...

So do a good thing today, and go and sign this...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled swarm-support /
swarm-modelling...

Alex
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    & Swarm Development Group, Santa Fe, New Mexico (www.swarm.org) 

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