Hi all -
I apologize for my multiple cross-group postings but I feel the
importance and urgency of this message warrant it.
As many of you are aware, last summer Accelrys announced that they would
be discontinuing support for GCG and SeqLab this upcoming June. That
situation dismayed me and others and I wanted to do something about it.
I contacted Steven Smith, one of the original authors of SeqLab, and
discussed the situation with him. He volunteered to contact Accelrys in
an attempt to minimally get SeqLab's license and code released to him. I
gave Steve several months to try to persuade the company. Accelrys was
not very cooperative. Therefore, I set about creating a petition in an
attempt to add some leverage. I've contacted a few of you earlier
regarding this initiative and appreciate your support. Anyway, I have
created and posted that petition. It's at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/gcg/petition.html
And a nicely formatted PDF version is available in my own Web space:
http://bio.fsu.edu/~stevet/Accelrys_petition.pdf
I would very much appreciate you adding your name to this petition, if you
agree with our sentiment. Thank you for your time!
Cheers - Steve
Steven M. Thompson
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