In message <[log in to unmask]>, Chuck Ryan
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>> Ah! Another trap buried inside a software license.  I'm
>> predicting that this
>> stuff will get far worse if and when we can get MPE/iX to run
>> on some other
>> hardware somehow in the future.  DOWN-sizing your CPU should
>> not conflict
>> with your license in a logical world but lawyers write
>> license agreements not
>> me.
>
>This is another concern I have about OpenMPE.
>
>Companies like Cognos have squeezed their customers at every opportunity. I
>doubt we could count the number of 3000 upgrades killed by the rediculous
>software upgrade fees they, and companies like them, have tried to charge.
>
>I expect that if OpenMPE somehow succeeds and MPE is ported to a new
>platform, a new wave of migrations off of MPE will occur when the vendor
>licensing fees are announced.

Not if the emulator enables us to define our own HP Susan # and CPU Name
values :-)

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