On Tue, 24 May 1994 10:27:46 EDT Ed Fair <[log in to unmask]> said: >if your board members are committed to l-soft then they shouldn't have >any problem identifying themselves. they also shouldn't feel obliged to >publish their addresses. From the name, one could deduce an e-mail address in a few minutes. If you look at small to medium businesses in the real world, you will find that a lot of them are owned by a handful of people, that the owners want to get involved in defining the company's strategy, but that they may not care to have their names published. When the company is large enough, the shareholders can simply have the company hire a director to represent their views at the board (and dismiss him if he forgets why he was nominated). In a small company the shareholders have to represent their views themselves. >more fundamentally: is l-soft privately held, and is l-soft planning to >remain privately held? what role does your board of directors play? L-Soft does not plan to sell shares on the public market, if that is what you meant. There is no business reason for us to do so at the moment. The board of directors defines the company's long-term strategy and makes all decisions of strategic import, leaving the day-to-day management to the employees. The board discussed the CREN/L-Soft contract, interviewed new employees, is reviewing the resumes of people who are applying now, decided on the relative priorities of the VMS and unix developments, and so on. Eric