Rod Speed wrote:

Yep. If the seller of a physical book claims that you have
only bought a license to read the book and that you
can not lend the physical book to anyone, or re sell it,
that hasnt changed a damned thing legally, you are
still free to do anything you like with that physical book,
including wipe your arse with pages from it if you like.

But they haven't sold you a copy of Windows( a physical book in your
analogy). They have sold you a LICENSE to use Windows.
In keeping with your analogy the seller doesn't sell you the book they
sell you the right to read it


Anyway this is getting (getting?) fairly circular so we will just
have to agree to differ; me and Microsoft (and their team of highly paid
lawyers)on one side , and you with your opinion on the other.