In a message dated 12/12/02 12:41:36 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> I believe that HP will consider it a license transfer if you turn
> in your 3000 and want to use MPE on an emulator. User limits, CPUs,
> etc. have not been defined, but HP and the emulator companies will
> be reasonable here, I am sure. If you do not want to turn in your
> 3000 but you still want to run the emulator then you need a new MPE
> license.  This costs HP money and that cost will be passed on, at
> least that is our current thinking.
>

So ten years from now, if I want to switch the MPE license on one of my 957SX
boxes, HP will want my old 957 CPU board?  Why?  "New" licenses can only cost
HP money if they are truely "new" licenses.

A question: Since I have not managed to get HP to properly transfer MPE
licenses for HP-3000 systems that I have owned for maybe 2+ years now, when
will that occur so that I can in the future transfer say that 927LX license
to an emulator?  The policy within HP has been to pretend that many older
HP-3000 systems somehow do not have a legitimate license.  Unless I hear
otherwise, I will continue to beleive that EVERY HP-3000 ever sold inculded a
MPE license.  It's only user limits and versions and add-on software that
should be questionable.

I don't want to be a pain about all this but from past experiences with HP
regarding license transfers, I have zero trust.

Wayne