Wow, and we are back to OpenMPE, Incorporate.  A non-profit cooperative
created to do just that.  And the cross section of the MPE community to
"steer the ship" is the Board of Directors that was being voted on Monday
and Tuesday of this week.  The final results of the voting have not been
released yet but it will be known this week.  Details can be found at
www.TechGroupMD.com/OpenMPE.htm.

Thanx,
        Jon

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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Opensource modeling the development of MPE


All of Jeff's points confirm my belief that the only way MPE will survive
is if it is incorporated with a governing board giving direction to a
President and staff.  It can be run as a non-profit cooperative as we've
been discussing, but someone has to steer the ship and be accountable for
it to succeed.  In my opinion, it has to be run as a business...it's going
to have issues of supply and demand, cash flow, profit and loss, R and D,
etc., etc., and if these aren't handled properly, the entity won't survive.

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions

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