At 10:41 AM 9/27/02 -0400, Schwartzman, Zelik wrote:

/snip
>Why doesn't HP just
>release the source code of MPE to the third party vendors, collect some
>royalties and be done with it. (bye bye HP!!!)

As I understand it, some components of MPE are actually owned by other
parties and as such, HP doesn't have ownership and can't transfer it to
others.  And to transfer ownership of what it owns to others HP would
have to remove those components. This may cause some interesting issues,
in terms of the functionality of what is left depending on what components
are involved.

It may also take a significant amount of engineering effort
to pull everything together from all corners of HP, including all the
build steps, so as to provide something that would actually do a full
build of the OS and its needed components.  It's not clear that the
Virtual CSY group currently has the resources to do this...

Clearly not an ideal situation for those of us who would like to see
MPE continue to live on following HP's EOL of the product.