In a message dated 12/19/02 11:15:07 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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> 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.
>
>

Been there.  Done that.  I now no longer bother with trying to license some
systems.  Note: I still use them and consider them to have valid licenses, I
just cannot get through the nonsense at HP with the same logic that you tried
to use.  Nobody can.

PS: Jeff V. - this is the same stuff that I was griping about before.

PSS:  I'd love to purchase a $500 "new" license for MPE to go on a HP-9000 N
series box.... A legitimate use for a "new" license.

Wayne