Dear firedrakers, apologies if you have already received this, but this was sent round on our Bath HPC list and I thought it might be of interest: I just signed the petition "Everyone in the research community: We must accept that software is fundamental to research, or we will lose our ability to make groundbreaking discoveries." on Change.org <http://change.org/>. It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link: http://www.change.org/p/everyone-in-the-research-community-we-must-accept-th... <http://www.change.org/p/everyone-in-the-research-community-we-must-accept-that-software-is-fundamental-to-research-or-we-will-lose-our-ability-to-make-groundbreaking-discoveries?utm_medium=email&utm_source=signature_receipt&utm_campaign=new_signature> Thanks! Eike -- Dr Eike Hermann Mueller Research Associate (PostDoc) Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom +44 1225 38 5803 e.mueller@bath.ac.uk http://people.bath.ac.uk/em459/