Not necessarily. Manuals are sometimes considered to be part of the cost of
producing a product. I once worked at a place where we charged for copies
of manuals - but if someone came in and wanted one we would let them borrow
one to copy. The cost to buy one was to cover our costs of repro and time
to deal with the transaction.

That was a while ago, before the web was so accessible to the public.
Nowadays there are plenty of companies which provide their manuals for free
download.

However, if you are SCO or RIAA, all bets are off...




"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
.com...

"Nocturnal1" wrote in message
...
If I had my druthers,
there would be no copyright law and everything would be freely available
for
downloading...


Nobody would write any new material in that case. It wouldn't be worth
their time and effort.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE