Ditto from me.  When a company goes bankrupt and sells off their systems,
you can't get a license transfer unless the person at the now defunct
company signs it over to you.  They know who the owner/user was but it is
confidential information and they need to protect the user's information.
THE COMPANY WENT BANKRUPT!!
Catch-22 is right.

Guy Avenell
www.hptraderonline.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracy Pierce" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: MPE Licensing (Thanks to Jeff Vance)


> I'd very gladly pay $500 to license MPE *RIGHT NOW* even though the box I
> want to license IS already licensed - I just don't happen to hold that
> license, and the alleged licensee no longer exists.
>
> I'd sure like to see HP get a little less draconian about this; if the
> software licenses really exist in any way shape or form, HP should have
> access to those (being the licensor) and should thus be able to tell me
> "That system is stolen!" or whatever, such as "we sold that box on x/y/z
to
> abc inc with license to run MPE, Image, etc, for 100 users".  Then if they
> want to put my name on it, based on my claim of ownership, amen.
>
> Instead I'm being told, after going thru circular telephone connections
and
> rigid HP-internal catch-22 procedures, that I have a 600-lb paperweight.
>
> Tracy (thursday rant, sorry, I know hp's reading this) Pierce
> 415-923-2266
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cecile Chi [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:46 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: MPE Licensing (Thanks to Jeff Vance)
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 12/19/02 8:13:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > << The $500 ballpark for new MPE license (one time cost) is flat-out
> >  unacceptable.
> >   >>
> >
> > Oh, I think it's a bargain!
> >
> > Cecile
> >
>