I agree, Jon.  But I don't think alot of people knew of your efforts...I
did not until last Monday.  So do you have a solution with enough support
to be successful?  Or do we have an Afghanistan here where several parties
are pulling in different directions and harmony is non-existent?

John Lee

At 11:32 AM 1/9/02 -0500, Jonathan M. Backus wrote:
>
>       Wow, and we are back to OpenMPE, Incorporate.  A non-profit cooperative
>created to do just that.  And the cross section of the MPE community to
>"steer the ship" is the Board of Directors that was being voted on Monday
>and Tuesday of this week.  The final results of the voting have not been
>released yet but it will be known this week.  Details can be found at
>www.TechGroupMD.com/OpenMPE.htm.
>
>Thanx,
>       Jon
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of John Lee
>Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:27 AM
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>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Opensource modeling the development of MPE
>
>
>All of Jeff's points confirm my belief that the only way MPE will survive
>is if it is incorporated with a governing board giving direction to a
>President and staff.  It can be run as a non-profit cooperative as we've
>been discussing, but someone has to steer the ship and be accountable for
>it to succeed.  In my opinion, it has to be run as a business...it's going
>to have issues of supply and demand, cash flow, profit and loss, R and D,
>etc., etc., and if these aren't handled properly, the entity won't survive.
>
>John Lee
>Vaske Computer Solutions
>
>
>
>

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