Ah. That explains the preference for Windows over Linux. :)

Do you mean a seller restricting a buyer's choices
during the transaction where a willing buyer buys
something from a willing seller, or do you mean
the seller doing something outside that transaction?
I said that a transaction where a willing buyer buys
something from a willing seller can never be theft,
but I didn't say that the seller or the buyer couldn't
do thinhgs outside that transaction wiich are theft.

The phrase "willing buyer buying from a willing seller"
implies that either can choose to restrict the choices
of the other.  I would like to be paid $10,000 per hour,
but all my clients are conspiring to restrict me from
that choice.  My clients who would no doubt like to
only pay me $1 per hour, but I am restricting their
choices by refusing to accept a job at that rate.

In the same way, as long as Microsoft doesn't stop me
from buying a Macintosh or installing Linux, selling
Windows is not theft. This is not to say that MS does
not engage in unethical and illegal business practices,
just that selling a copy of Windows is not one of them.

--
Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/>