Patrick writes:
> Okay, now that you've explained the rationale, it makes sense. Since my
> message on Friday I have seen a number of posts which indicated that the
> hardware restriction would be temporary, but that information was
> not in the original meeting report.

It's not in the meeting report because HP hasn't said anything about it
being a "temporary" restriction in their current thinking.  I suspect that
the plan today is for it to be a permanent restriction.  Of course I'd like
to see many of the restrictions expire at some point, but so far as I know
HP has not agreed to any such thing.

> Since it was reported as HP's requirement I naturally thought it was HP's
> idea.

Well, you can give them credit for the current plan to permanently restrict
it to HP/Compaq systems *and* charge money for the license :-)

Gavin