Duane Percox writes:
>
> Ok - its 3 weeks to HPWorld and its time to rev up those
> discussions on funding models for the 3k again.
>
> Background
> ----------
> It was proposed that 3k customer's pay an additional amount on
> their support contracts each year. This additional money would
> go into a fund for 3k development at csy. Then those cool projects
> we want can get done.

Or we can do some of the cool projects ourselves, for no cost other than our
time.

I don't speak for CSY, but they have been willing to reveal internals and/or
MPE source code to technically-inclined members of the 3k community interested
in doing enhancements or add-on utilities.  In my case I asked for the source
for :SETCLOCK and :SHOWCLOCK in order to determine whether or not a port of
the xntp Network Time Protocol would be feasible (it is; I just need to find
some time after Apache and BIND).

Granted, some projects like major IMAGE enhancements aren't really suitable for
a do-it-yourself effort.  But, the potential does exist for new toys.
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