"Chris" wrote in message
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I'd like to be a bit of a contrarian here for once.

rant
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An important point that's being neglected here is that these manuals
are intellectual property which has been copyrighted to make sure the
fruits of that work goes to the owners.

Many of these equipoments and manuals are no longer sold or supported by
HP. So I don't see what benefit they get by enforcing their copyrights.
All they seem to do is make it exceedingly difficult and miserable for
the owners of that old equipment.

This forum has many
well-respected engineers who depend, at least in part, on the residual
value of the intellectual property they have created in order to make
a
living, through patents, non-disclosure agreements, and copyrights,
allowing them to sell the same art to more than one customer. I don't
believe they would be happy if the owners of the fruits of their labor
decided to bypass those patents and non-disclosure agreements in order
to swipe some of that value for themselves.

As I said, no longer sold or supported, so this doesn't apply.

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Agilent has a webpage which recommends a number of resellers of
manuals, several of which have the one the OP is talking about.

Do they get a payment from the manual reseller when a manual is sold? I
doubt it.


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Chris