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Re: Open sourcing MPE (was - Tsunami and Diego Garcia)
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Jay Maynard <[log in to unmask]>
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Jay Maynard <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:53:57 -0600
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:33:04PM -0500, Joseph Dolliver wrote:
> Yesterday I sent a link regarding SUN giving Solaris to Open Source as
> well as IBM donating some 500 patents to the Open Source community. I have
> not seen one response about HP maybe giving up MPE to Open Source.
> I would have expected that the OpenMpe community would have made a comment.

What's to say? IBM gets open source. Sun sorta gets it. HP has given us no
reason to believe it gets it.

> The real answer is what's not being said. Have we all given up on MPE?

I think we'd all like to see it, but until HP gives us some reason to
believe their stance has changed, all we can say is the logical equivalent
of "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."

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