I am posting this to Open MPE with the consent of Jeff Vance.

Paul

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>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:48:17 -0500
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>Subject: Re: MPE/iX Licensing and Distribution for an Emulated Environment
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Jeff, this needs to be posted to Open MPE.

My point was "let's move on, we have an emulator to get to market".

The comments about not forgetting are strictly personal based upon the effect of HP's decision to my career.

I'm enough in favor of what has been proposed by you and the team that wrote this (a great start, let's improve it) that I've posted this to the 500,000 members of the HP ITRC
forums. Perhaps a firm in India (whose IT people seem to be well represented in the ITRC forums) would like to take a crack at an emulator and just need to become aware of
the conference call.

Paul


On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:29:06 -0500, VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1) wrote:

>Paul wrote:
>
>...
>> So let's take what we have and make the best of it. Yes, HP
>> is putting roadblocks in front of us, making this more
>> difficult to do. Sure, remember that when you are approached to
>> buy HP9000 computers, personal computers and printers, but
>> let's move forward. We have an emulator to get to market.
>
>I see it (quite) differently. HP is trying to take away roadblocks.
>The largest roadblock so far has been that the current MPE license
>allows MPE to only run on an e3000 platform. If HP did nothing to
>address this there would be no legal way for a PA-RISC emulator
>to run MPE, MPE subsystems, or MPE tools and apps. So, I do not
>see HP as putting roadblocks in front of you. I do know that what
>we have proposed for a new MPE license is not perfect at all. I
>know there are some restrictions that are unfavorable to the
>emulator vendors and will make things a little more complicated
>for the end users. However, you need to realize that we(HP) did
>not say "hummm, this seems too good for everyone, let's try to
>mess it up some. Let's add some unnecessary roadblocks so that
>there is a smaller chance of anyone wanting to create a PA-RISC
>emulator." This entire processes was aimed at being able to allow
>emulator vendors to go forwards with a business and technical
>analysis, not having to worry if the legal license issues would
>prevent them from making a business out of selling an emulator.
>Thus, we intend to sell an MPE license divorced from e3000 h/w, at a
>very low price, so that the license and its price are not be a deterrent
>for anyone considering purchasing an emulator.
>
>regards,
> Jeff Vance, HP
>




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