Subj : Re: Protecting your code
To   : comp.programming
From : MiniMe
Date : Fri Jul 29 2005 07:28 pm

Wanting to see "the whole design" is not a good reason not to finish
in time what you promised at the begining. He was making this a reason
not to finish the work and this is why I stopped paying him.

After all it was a part time job (he was using his free time) not a
full time so I was not messing up his profesionall future forcing him
to work under his qualification or in a way he didn't like. We both
agreed on what I wanted to be done and he should had finished his
work. He had all the details he needed to finish that module. 

He kew that there was more to be implemented but he realized the
potential of the idea and wanted to know more than he needed and he
insisted on this.

Anyway the conversation is sliding to an other area which I don't want
to discuss. It is as you are noticing, agruable who has the point and
as I have the money and the idea I decide how I run the show.

Mm

PS: the country where he lives doesn't care much about copyright and
non disclosure whatever :-).





On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:56:28 -0700, Alan Balmer <albalmer@att.net>
wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:25:06 -0400, MiniMe <minime@uoft.com> wrote:
>
>> I am not being paranoid here but  I had to stop working with my
>>programmer because with no reasons he was pushing me to provide him
>>the whole concept.
>
>I suspect the reason is that he wanted to do a good, professional job.
>You *are* being paranoid. 
>
>If you're worried about it, ask him to sign a non-disclosure
>agreement. That's routine for contract programming.

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