On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Markus Mottl wrote:

> There may be prohibiting legal aspects beyond my understanding, because
> I don't know anything about the relevant French laws...

	Has anyone looked yet at the track records of NICE operations? 
	That's the Non-profit International Consortium for Eiffel.
	Who knows, maybe there are some answers there for some of your
	questions, some lessons to learn and maybe some surprises,
	such as their membership fee in the past two years (zero).
	Jan