I shudder to think that Hyperion would ever "lock" OS4 down so it wouldn't run on UAE at all. They have made many a perceived blunder over the years, but I'd be shocked if they shut the door on UAE users wanting to buy OS4. A sale is a sale, after all.
At the moment OS4 is an exclusive club that you have to pay a premium to join, like owning a Lamborghini.
If everyone had a Lamborghini then it wouldn't be so special and people would just scrap them because of the fuel cost and the impracticality of parking, breakdowns and catching fire.
Hyperion is unlikely to be able to prevent people from running OS4 on UAE, but UAE is likely to make it less desirable to run OS4 on real hardware and without the real hardware then why bother with OS4.
