[lisper]

> Lost sales because they might have bought a new PC with Windows?

Right.

> Odds are that the PCs already came with Windows,

So? MS still gets paid.

> so maybe he installed a newer version of Windows....

No. He was making copies of the original restore disks that the original owners had discarded.

[Cw67NTN8F]

The law is the law and no doubt they helped write it, but morally MS has no case--if the original PC already had a Win license.

[lisper]

Yes, I completely agree.