Re: Hiring a coder to squash a bug?

FROM : Olivier Lanctôt
DATE : Sat Nov 06 19:17:03 2004

Hello,

Thank you for your response...

Any idea where I could get a copy of a contract like that?

Thanks,


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:10:28 +0000, Graham J Lee
<<email_removed>> wrote:
> On 6 Nov 2004, at 17:50, Olivier Lanctôt wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I want to know what are the rates for hiring someone to fix a bug and
> > how can I be sure the coder won't steal my code (we're talking about a
> > big shareware app here.)
> >
>
> You can't be sure, but you can make them sign a contract that means
> that if they do you are allowed to come down on them like the
> preverbial ton of bricks.  Same thing that would stop an immoral
> version of me from shopping out all my employer's IP.
> --
> Graham Lee
> UNIX Systems Manager,
> Oxford Physics Practical Course
> http://nextstep.sdf-eu.org
>
>



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Olivier