Donna writes:

> Those are the rules we have to play by, unfortunately.
>  
> I wish we were allowed to talk about what we're working on to be able to
> give y'all (I don't know if that word has a british translation ;-) a sense
> of what's being done and what progress is being made.
>  
> I guess one might be able to say "hmmm...they're meeting with hp a 
> lot...and maybe that means something is happening"?

As I've written before, having the OpenMPE committee agree to sign non-
disclosure agreements was one of the dumbest mistakes that the committee 
could have ever made, and in the end, could well be attributed to be the 
single greatest contributor to the death of MPE, beyond HP's own mishandlings 
of the product.

However, there is a reasonable alternative that might help remedy the 
situation for all concerned and still work within HP's rules: have everyone on 
HP3000-L sign a non-disclosure agreement, just as the board has done. 
Secondly, detailed records of the minutes would be posted on passworded 
website so that only authorized users could read the minutes, but where that 
password be given out to only those who signed the HP NDA.

The punishment for anyone breaking this NDA could easily be made quite 
severe. Anyone found in violation of the NDA, for any reason, could be banned 
from HP's customer list, so that HP would never again sell a new HP3000 to 
them for all time in the future.

This simple solution would seem to work in everyone's favor.

Wirt Atmar

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