I've always envisioned a cooperative of sorts, where the dues-paying 
members are also the owners.  It seems to fit that model.

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions


At 02:43 PM 11/14/05 -0800, donna garverick wrote:
>November 14, 2005
>
>Press Release
>
>For Immediate Release
>
>OpenMPE is pleased to announce that it has engaged the services of
>Martin Gorfinkel, of LARC Computing, to negotiate with HP on OpenMPE's
>behalf in our effort to obtain the use of the MPE source code and to
>organize our member-users into a sustainable enterprise.  "Martin is an
>experienced executive with 30 years of corporate management", said
>Birket Foster, Chairman of OpenMPE. "We are at the point in time where
>we need an executive to build out the plan for taking stewardship of
>the MPE source code, and have the correct business plans and processes
>in place"
>
>OpenMPE is in final stages of working with HP on strategies to support
>the HP3000 customers past Dec 31, 2006.  OpenMPE has proposed to the
>community a fee-based service for providing upkeep of the MPE operating
>system and its environment. If this service comes on line, users of MPE
>will be asked to commit funds to enable OpenMPE to hire software
>engineers to take charge of the 68 racks of equipment and the build and
>test processes which turn millions of lines of code into the secure and
>stable OS we know as MPE.
>
>"This will all take time and money to transition the knowledge to our
>organization. Then we can work with users to prioritize the changes
>required to meet their business needs", said Donna Garverick, corporate
>Secretary and OpenMPE board member.
>
>"Now is the time for HP3000 customers to commit funds to this large
>effort. Martin will be the driving force behind our program to sell our
>services to the community. Martin will be adding detail to the business
>plan as this transition goes forward and OpenMPE becomes operational.
>Martin is the liaison with HP and the customer base and will be working
>to produce an appropriate plan", said Paul Edwards, Treasurer and
>OpenMPE board member.
>
>For more information, please contact Martin Gorfinkel at 650-941-9310
>or http://www.larc-inc.com/.  You are also invited to visit the OpenMPE
>website at http://www.OpenMPE.org.
>
>
>
>Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
>dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
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