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Subject:Re: Styles for User Guides From:Sharon Burton-Hardin <sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 8 Apr 1999 07:54:11 -0700
I think you have it!
If the client requests and pays for the template development effort, then I
think they own it. Otherwise, they don't.
sharon
Sharon Burton-Hardin
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From: R G Wallen <rgwallen -at- JUNO -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Wednesday, 07 April, 1999 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: Styles for User Guides
|Greetings!
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|Basically what I'm seeing here is that if I design a ground up template
|for my foundation... and I deliver that as a pat hand to a client, I
|shouldn't use it again in its original format... even though I made it
|for my own template on my own time at my own expense and someone else was
|willing to pay for it outright. I have to agree with that statement. But
|if they only paid for my time to enter the content into such a template,
|then I should be free to continue using the basic design as I see fit.
|Else, if the client was willing to cover the cost(s) of the template, and
|the contents, I should at the very least modify the style enough as too
|not compromise the ethical standings I should maintain with the previous
|client... wright! write or right!
|
|Richard Wallen
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|We're still gaining on it... a little more each day
|Sharing ideas that matter... with people who care!
|mailto:rgwallen -at- juno -dot- com
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