Wayne,

        Cortlandt's "up to $1500" for a few hundred licenses is hardly milking more
money from the user base.  HP has made it clear that the 'No fee' is not an
option, so there is no point in even putting it on the table.  Mark Klein
(and others) have previously pointed out that there is royalty fees that
have to be paid to at least three different vendors.  Plus, HP owns the MPE
environment and has invested a great deal of money creating and maintaining
it over the years.  They are (hopefully) providing us something for the
license - the right to use the software.

Thanx,
        Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Wayne R. Boyer
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] MPE Licensing - revenue neutral


In a message dated 12/6/02 3:33:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> Well, if the purpose of the licensing fee is to recover costs of
management,
> administration then...

If any proposed fee simply covers HP's costs for admin and mgmt, what value
is there in having a fee at all?  No fee and no admin/mgmt is fine.  If
there
is to be a fee it needs to actually pay for something of value.  To me this
just sounds like another way to milk more $ out of the HP-3000 user base
without supplying anybody with anything new.

Wayne Boyer