Marco van de Voort wrote:

whether he's doing his "day job" or spending time honing his skills or programming "on spec".

Moreover, even if you specify it as day-job, can you consider in-house stuff
commercial?  It is not sold.

But very often the software facilitates services which are sold. We send out hourly reports to customers 365x24 for which we are paid, the code started off as a proof-of-concept for a customer but it turned out to be better business to run everything on a bureau basis (if something goes wrong we can do something about it, rather than having to wait for the customer's contract maintainer who's based in a different timezone).

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

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