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In article <RFowler.293@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>, RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov 
(Robert A. Fowler) writes...
>I>Please don't tell me to RTFM... I don't even have TFM. Thanks.
> 
>>Please email me, I don't read news very much.
> 
>>||     Ed Zhong                ||      I make my money work for me.
>>||     ed@introl.com           ||      I work to make my money work for me.
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   THIEF(?) THIEF(?) THIEF(?)
> 
>Flame 1: YOU DON'T HAVE THE MANUAL? (Can you say STOLEN copy of Windows?)  
>If you don't have the manual you don't have a licence to use it so deleate 
>it off of you harddisk until you buy it.  That hologram on the MS Windows 
>manual the 'proof of ownership', I don't know about over version (Z-Nix 
>etc.), but you should still have a manual if you have a legal copy, AND if 
>you have someone else's old version (they upgraded to 3.1 and gave you 3.0) 
>that is stolen copy, read the license agrement.   MS Windows is so cheap ($
>49 discount price $99 list price) that there is no excuse for not buying a 
>registered copy.  (I have 3 registerd copies, one for each of my computers).

Before you slap the handcuffs on this individual:

a) There are documented instances of computers being shipped with 
   legitimately pre-installed copies of Windows that did not include Windows
   manual(s) in the shipment of the computer.

b) If Microsoft site-licenses or sells multiple copies of Windows to an 
   organization, it is possible that the number of manuals may not be 
   equal to the number of installed copies of Windows.

c) Did you ever lose a manual?

d) FYI - OEM versions of Windows (and MS-DOS) do not have the hologram on
   the manual.

JD