Re: [tlug] Novel embraces Microsoft

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 09/11/06, Keith Bawden <isdj@example.com> wrote:

> stephen@example.com wrote:
>
> > Which part of "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" are you having trouble
> > understanding? ;-)  I'm sorry, there is no "implied consent", not for
> > intellectual property, anyway.  Fair use is not a license, for
> > example.
>
> I have never actually understood what "all rights reserved" actually
> meant :-/

It is quite simple.

"I am handing you this foo, but I still own *everything* about it. You
are simply carrying it, and I may do anything I want to it, including
destroying it, taking it back, changing it without your knowledge or
permission..." and so on, ad nauseum.

-Josh