I agree with your line of thought here. The surprise HPQ signing, regardless of the Amt./terms is big for us in the future licensing arena. Makes the Sony situation all the more intiguing as well. Why is it though that AMD, Intel and now HPQ have not issued there own PR statements? Would have impacted our exposure greatly which is really all we need, to be diluting Swartz type power. I`m betting that this will be the last year that their influence will be a negative. Even with some of my mounting frustration in some areas. Wish everyone a great year. joe