Doug Blackwood: I can’t
think of any reason why we wouldn’t want
to at least try to take a look at
it, and see if we come up with
an answer. There could be
proprietary information that’s still
in a MPE V that’s used in
MPE/iX. We just have to investigate
and find out, so we’ll take a
look at it. If we put it in a public
domain, we also lose any rights to
do any control over it. So
what we could maybe do is sell it
for a very low cost, because
if we sell it then we can expect
adherence to license.
John Korb, Innovative Software
Solutions. I want to make a comment
about the MPE V source code. I do a
lot of work with the US Navy.
They run nine different versions of
MPE and MPE/iX ranging from
V Delta 4 all the way up to 5.5.
They have a lot of privileged
mode applications on the Classic
machines, and up until about
the 2P release came out for MPE V,
it was no problem. Went through
paperwork, waited four or five
months they bought the MPE file
source code and tables manual. But
then things changed. The most
recent quote they got for
purchasing the MPE V source code Release
40 – which they are trying to
install but have been unsuccessful
due to some priviledged mode
problems on some of their machines
– was $10,000 for the source
code, and this five-page listing
of you have to do this and this and
this and this to qualify to
buy the source code if you pay the
$10,000. It’s become very,
very difficult to obtain something
for a customer– or I should
say for a customer that in the past
they didn’t have any trouble
buying.