Quoting Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]>:

>>In a word, no. The tools are not "unlocked." You can reinstall them on the
>>additional box but you will not be in compliance with HP's license agreement.
>>You'll need to get a license transfer agreement from HP, and there may be fees
>>associated with the transfer. The unlimited LTU Bob writes of is the user
>>limit on the machine, not additional licensed HP software or third party
>>software.
>
>OK. How much longer after HP stops supporting the 3000 (end of 2006)
>will they still be collecting money for teir upgrades? That's really
>the question I meant to ask... not what the situation is NOW, but what
>it will be when, according to HP, the 3000 is really, finally,
>officially, dead dead dead. If I buy an A500 in 2007, how's that all
>going to have to be done?

To make a short story of it, up to 50 years. That's the limit on copyright
ownership under a treaty approved by the Senate a few years ago that sets the
international copyright ownership period at 50 years. The legal types will get
specific as to ownership by corporations or individuals and when the clock
starts for each type.

Bartlesby.com was shaping up as an excellent Internet library of works that had
past the previous copyright period but it looks like it has gone the way of
Interex - when the copyright period changed to 50 years the site had to pull
almost 60% of the content. What remained people could find elsewhere and today
it looks like the url pirates have gotten ahold of bartlesby.com - oh well....

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