At 10:03 PM 8/6/97 -0700, Michael L Gueterman wrote:
>  But when the "improvement" is to some basic design element,
>other future enhancements may require this "improvement" to
>exist.  If that is the case, does HP then throw the prior "paid-for"
>change in for free?  I would imagine that most changes that
>would come from this proposition would be "vertical" in nature,
>and not impact core functionality, but I wouldn't think that it would
>always be the case (is that a new record for the base word "would"
>in a sentence?).
>
When I commented about HP getting reimbursed for the "complications", it
was this kind of thing I was thinking about (i.e. keeping track of who had
what improvement and whether someone needed to get improvement "A" in order
to use improvement "B").  There could also be an "expiration date" after
which the improvement became free, maybe three to five years.  There could
also be an amortization process, whereby the improvement cost gradually
less until it became zero after some time.

I agree my suggestion has some problems and a lot of details to work out.
Originally, I came up with this scheme for a somewhat different situation,
but I thought it might have some application here.

John D. Alleyn-Day
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