>>Microsoft would not create and offer Windows to the public, if the law allowed everyone to freely redistribute their products, and compete with Microsoft usin

>>Microsoft would not create and offer Windows to the public, if the law allowed everyone to freely redistribute their products, and compete with Microsoft using their creation, as it would render their novel efforts meaningless against the much simpler effort of copying products created by the others. So you believe Microsoft does not create any software that is allowed to be Freely redistributed and Open Source software does not exist at all, anywhere in the world. >>Counterfeiting is an act that is similar to robbery No it is not an act or even remotely similar to robbery. Further creating a Restore CD is not an act of Counterfeiting. >apparent from the fact that this guy has succeeded in making money from what Microsoft gave birth to, and therefore owned That is not the definition of counterfeiting, thus the fact the guy "succeeded in making money from what Microsoft gave birth to" does not establish counterfeiting. Hell if that was the definition every person that ever made money supporting, installing, etc the windows operating system would be "counterfeiting" it given they "succeeded in making money from what Microsoft gave birth to" >Microsoft would be compensated justly if they were simply just awarding the monetary damage back by the damaging parties, here Eric Lundgren and his co-defendants. Microsoft was justly compensated when they sold the orginal licence for the orgianal computer on which the Restore CD's where designed to Restore. Microsoft now however wants to Double Dip and charge refurbishers for a 2nd license on for the same hardware, that is not just compensation that IMO should be considered fraud, and be illegal. When Dell, HP, Lenovo ect sell a windows computer, they buy and resell a license to use that version of windows for the lifetime of the product/computer. A person restoring that system back to its OEM state should not have to rebuy that license from MS to preform that restoration. MS wants these recyclers to pay them $25 for a license the OEM already paid MS for.