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Subject:Re: Windows Annotations From:"Brierley, Sean" <Brierley -at- QUODATA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:47:50 -0400
Hallo:
Surely, one can post the ideas and information contained in those pages
without copying verbatim? Is there a difference, for example, between typing
and emailing the specific examples listed in that page range, and
attributing the source, versus scanning the entire book, making a PDF, and
distributing the book for $1.99 from a web site. I think there is but I can
be persuaded otherwise, not being a lawyer. <g>
Anyway, I'd pass along the info on how to use MS trademarks in the manner I
mention (in fact, I did in an earlier post when I grabbed trademark info
from the front matter of an MS publication and emailed the info to the
group). Am I due for a date in court?????
Thank goodness I have no wealth that is worth a lawsuit <vbg>.
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Tom Bilbo [mailto:tbilbo -at- conduitsoft -dot- com]
>>>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 2:59 PM
>>>To: Brierley, Sean; TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>>>Subject: RE: Windows Annotations
>>>
>>>
>>>I do believe it would.........
>>>
>>>On pages 278 - 280 of the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical
>>>Publications (1998, Second Edition) gives specific examples
>>>for the use of
>>>Windows NT (R) and all the mutations there of.
>>>
>>>Also, due to the fact that the Copyright page says, "no part
>>>of the contents
>>>of this book may be reproduced or TRANSMITTED in any form or
>>>by any means
>>>without the written permission of the publisher." I don't
>>>think that I can
>>>post word for word what the book says.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Tom
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Tom Bilbo [mailto:tbilbo -at- conduitsoft -dot- com]
>>>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 2:59 PM
>>>To: Brierley, Sean; TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>>>Subject: RE: Windows Annotations
>>>
>>>
>>>I do believe it would.........
>>>
>>>On pages 278 - 280 of the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical
>>>Publications (1998, Second Edition) gives specific examples
>>>for the use of
>>>Windows NT (R) and all the mutations there of.
>>>
>>>Also, due to the fact that the Copyright page says, "no part
>>>of the contents
>>>of this book may be reproduced or TRANSMITTED in any form or
>>>by any means
>>>without the written permission of the publisher." I don't
>>>think that I can
>>>post word for word what the book says.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Tom
>>>
