This initiative aims to bring together tens of millions of computer programs.
Low cost, but high ambitions. For 1.5 million euros over three years, including the salaries of four researchers and two students working on the project for eighteen months, the National Research in Computer Science and Control Institute (INRIA) has decided to create a sort of library of Alexandria of all free software, whose source code is publicly available (called “open source”), since the birth of the computer.
the software is aujourd ‘hui at the heart of all human activity, says in substance Roberto Di Cosmo, director of the project called “Software Heritage” (accessible via the softwareheritage.org site). But this knowledge is fragile and ephemeral: they change with the programming languages of the arrival of new tools such as mobile phones, including the computing power exceeds that …
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