Hi all - re.
http://www.petitiononline.com/gcg/
A huge THANKS to all of you that signed my petition! Within the first
week online I got almost 150 signatures, and John Devereux himself most
recently signed it. I sent Rob Brown of Accelrys an 'official' copy of
the petition and the signatures at the end of last month. However, but
not surprisingly, I have yet to receive one word back from Accelrys. I
realize that we can't force them to do anything, but I at least thought
that they would have the courtesy to respond to it somehow. The petition
did result in a news story though. GenomeWeb News' bioinformatics
newsletter, BioInform, published the story on April 4th. See my copy at:
http://bio.fsu.edu/~stevet/BioInformGCG.pdf
Some may feel that the BioInform story suggests the petition was merely a
means of influencing commercial negotiations with Accelrys regarding code
release, and have nothing to do with public domain...