Chumly partially said:
...I see the cost of the shop manual more as a deterrent to the competent home mechanic than anything else in the pragmatic sense of the word...
9 years of being an Apple service technician in the sf bay area in the 90's
and I speak to you tonight, my fellow plebeians, on a Toshiba laptop
with XP Pro.
No more "Operating System Of The Month Club" from Apple and
I feel good about that. I hope they sell lots of rich-kid computers to pay
for their rich-kid lifestyle without me.
Yamaha is distributing their cycle lines owners manuals online now and are expected
to have service lit soon.
As for copyright laywers, don't expect a Pragmatic approach anytime soon - heh heh.