Okay, here's a hypothetical question, and please forgive me if it's been
covered before.

Let's say some company is getting rid of an HP3000, and decides, out of
the kindness of their hearts, to just give it to you.  (I said it was
"hypothetical" didn't I?  ;)

Now you have an HP3000 of your very own, and you decide you're going to
put it in the basement, and blow all your "I have an NT/Linux/OS2 file
server in my basement" friends away the next time you have them over.

You decide you aren't going to buy ANY support whatsoever -- maybe
you're a closet CE, or maybe the box is old enough that you just decide
to use it until it dies -- after all it was free.  (Besides, if your
wife thought $400 for a new UW SCSI card was bad, wait until she sees an
uplift charge.)

You also decide to not have ANY HP products -- whatever comes stock with
5.5 is what you'll use, figuring that you'll just use all the freeware
that has been ported to the OS within the last few years.  (And you have
this dream of porting the first XFREE86 server code to MPE/iX...)

So, with NO HP support, and NO HP products, you still want to run an
HP-blessed and otherwise legitimate "stock" MPE/iX system, but you don't
know what you would have to pay for.  A Right-to-Use License?  A
Right-to-Copy license?  Nothing?  (Hey, we're still talking
"hypothetical" here.)

So what exactly would you need to pay for?

Anybody?