> -----Original Message-----
> From: VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: MPE Licensing
>
>
> Chuck,
>
> > Perhaps you could expand a bit on that current thinking since
> > I am having a hard time seeing how this "costs HP money".
>
> It costs HP money every time we issue a new MPE license, since
> we need to pay various 3rd parties a fee for every copy of MPE
> in existence.  This fee is for code that we have in the OS that
> is their intellectual property. I guess there is also more
> overhead to create a new license than to do a transfer.
>
>  Jeff Vance, "CSY"
>

My point is that I, not HP, own my current 3000.

Why should HP have the right to claim the hardware that I could sell, or use
for spare parts on other systems, if I choose to move to an emulator to run
my current licensed copy of MPE? Particularly when I am already being forced
to pay them for the privilage.

That is more than just a little bit sleazy.


Comments are my own, not my employer's... etc.





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