Hello,

The Musclecard applet will definitely not be proprietary.  This is the 
point of this applet is to work across multiple vendor cards and on 
several operating systems.  I currently have a Card Management Application 
running on Windows 2000, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, and OSX that works on the 
Musclecard.  It's very powerful, and very delicate right now.  If I 
released the sources right now there would be hundreds of variations of 
this applet, which I want to avoid.  There will be an appropriate time to 
release the sources.  You will notice a strange licensing scheme on the 
applet.  I want to promote interoperability at the card level - this has 
been my goal now for 4 years and myself and others have spent months on 
this, but I do want to avoid either many versions of this in circulation, 
or the possibility of it being promoted by a single corporation, thus 
losing its 3rd party nature.  

Sorry about the powerpoint presentation.  I've run out of fake handles to 
use on adobe.com's trial powerpoint->pdf conversion.

Please feel free to contact me in person if you want to discuss more, or 
you can call me: 765-532-6006 is my cell.  The best I can sy is not to be 
nervous.  This will be open.


Best Regards,
Dave

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