I think this line from HP's response sums up what we
can expect from them:

"While we acknowledge the customer needs that will
extend beyond 2006, it has never been our intention,
nor do we have any plans, to encourage the use of the
HP e3000 after HP end-of-support."

Reading this the way Alfredo would have us do it (like
a love letter, read the lines, between the lines,
around the lines...) I interpret this to mean that HP
has no intent of releasing MPE source or assisting in
the development of a third-party maintainer of MPE
(since doing so would definitely "encourage the use of
the HP e3000 after HP end-of-support").

I would say that for all practical purposes, OpenMPE
is a dead issue.

Jim Phillips

--- Ron Seybold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Friends:
> We've got the text of Ken's letter, as well as an
> exclusive reply
> from HP (from Dave Wilde) posted at the NewsWire Web
> site. Go to
> <http://www.3000newswire.com/open4.html> to read
> them both.
>
> What do you believe about HP's intentions to help
> OpenMPE and the
> homesteading customers?


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