Chuck,

        I fully respect your opinions and your right to express them.  I'm sorry
you feel the efforts of myself and/or the current OpenMPE board are
unethical, questionable, or are not meeting your needs.  OpenMPE is designed
to be a community control organization with the membership selecting a group
of people to represent them as board members, of which I am one.  Perhaps
(assuming you are a member) if your feelings are held by the majority of the
OpenMPE members, it would be best to vote me, or any other board member that
is not representing your needs, out during the next election.

        In the meantime, I will continue to try and represent the community to the
best of my ability.

Thanx,
        Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Chuck Ryan
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:44 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] MPE Licensing (Thanks to Jeff Vance)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan M. Backus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:18 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: MPE Licensing (Thanks to Jeff Vance)
>
>
> Chuck,
>
>         Because of a Non-disclosure agreement, I was not
> permitted to be more
> specific then that.  The fact that HP decided to be more
> specific later was
> their choice, right, and was greatly appreciated.  I refer to
> Tom's earlier
> reply on all other points.
>
> Thanx,
>         Jon
>

Ah, my mistake, I thought OpenMPE was independent of HP.

It is very interesting that you were willing to make a post that
misrepresented the purpose of your discussion. It appears that instead of
asking for suggestions you were actually testing the waters for HP about
their proposed price. I personally would have found this to be ethically
questionable, but that is just me.

Comments are my own, not my employer's... etc.





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