At 01:10 AM 12/10/2002 -0500, Wayne R. Boyer wrote:
>And again, that will only work if there is source code for MPE available to
>somebody somewhere to use to produce newer better versions of MPE.  Nobody is
>improving Linux without source code.  Public Domain MPE as a true "Open"MPE
>could do very well as a business oriented OS.  Even private domain MPE could
>do well at a low price tag.
>
>Hope you all aren't getting too tired of my pro-source code rants.... It's
>important!

HP made it quite clear at HPWorld that they will not release MPE source as
open source. They did say they are leaning toward allowing a third party
(or third parties) to maintain and enhance it, but I don't know how much
they have done to making that happen.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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