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By Jim Gordon, MVP
This disclosure lets you know that everything you find on my web site is provided by me as an individual, not Microsoft Corporation or any other organization. Nothing is guaranteed in any way. Far too may things are beyond my control - vendor software, the operating systems, and your computer for me to know whether what is available here will work for you. It is the complete responsibility of each person who uses what they find here to make their own determinunation as to whether anything and everything is suitable for their purposes. In short, everything here is "as is" without any warranty whatsoever
Every web page is copyright by its owner. The pages on this site are no exception. You have permission to use programming code from the examples. All other rights are reserved. This means you can·t copy or use any of the stuff you find here unless what you·re using it for qualifies as ·fair use,· primarily for researchers, libraries and teachers.
Throughout this web site you will find references to trademarks. This page is to acknowledge the obvious. I·m not eve sure that it·s necessary to say this stuff (hey, I·m no attorney), but it seems lots of big companies do it and they pay money for attorneys. I·ll say the same stuff they do but I·ll insult your intelligence in an amusing way rather than just a straightforward way by saying the following obvious stuff which you must have been taught when you were a kid in middle school.
For example, the word MicrosoftÔ is often followed by the well-known and generally accepted abbreviation for the word ·trademark·, Ô. Whether the word Microsoft is followed by the word ·trademark,· the abbreviationÔ, or isn·t followed by anything it doesn·t change the fact that ·Microsoft· is a registered trademark of the MicrosoftÔ Corporation. I don·t claim to own the ·Microsoft· trademark. In fact, I don·t own any trademarks.
This same line or reasoning applies to all other trademarks used throughout this web site. For instance, Apple Computer owns the trademark for the words ·Apple· and ·Macintosh.· I·m just letting you know right here and now in case you were unable to figure this out on your own. In fact, all trademarks are owned by their owners. Makes sense, don·t you think?
Now on to something equally as difficult. Everything on every web page is copyrighted. That means you can·t have or use anything you find on the internet without permission of the owner of the copyright. Unless it falls under the category of ·fair use.· Since these web pages are on the internet, then copyrights apply to these web pages. Clever, no?
On this page the MVP and MacTopia graphics are only here because Microsoft gave me permission to use them. But I don·t have permission to let anyone else use them. I couldn·t let you use them in any way even if I wanted to, except you can click on the Mactopia graphic. That·s allowed.
Other things you can do: if you find code samples on the site you can copy and use them freely. You may make as many copies of documents on this web site that you want to, providing you acknowledge their source by putting the link to the source on each page. You may link to any pages within the web site.
If you click links found in this web site that take you to other web sites, then the rules at the destination apply. Don·t presume that a link is an endorsement. A link is simply a link. Nothing more.
