Question for the list.
What if you are not classifed as a programer and you have no contract written or oral
at your company? I work for a casino in the Slot Department and make shows, about
three to four a week for plasma signs. Lingo programming is new to the casino world I
have been do it for about three years. Last year I started to write a program
(Infomration Center) for our quest. It is about to go online next week, all the
testing is done and working fine at this time, but the casino still will not give me
on contract or anything not even a thank you for doing this program should I give them
the source code? or what does the list think I should do about this?
Fred Westermeyer
Slot Graphics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grand Casino Biloxi
265 Beach Boulevard
Biloxi, MS 39530
1-800-WIN-2-WIN ext.1592
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> NEVER GIVE AWAY YOUR SOURCE CODE THAT SMALL MEDIA DEPARTMENT TODAY WILL
> BECOME A BIG ONE TOMMORROW AND REUSE YOUR LINGO TEMPLATE AS BASIS FOR OTHER
> PROJECTS. YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SELL THE CODE TO THEM, BUT REMEMBER THEY WILL
> STILL IT. I HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN BEFORE AHEM!
LOL. Get over yourself, dude, no need to shout. As Al said, just make sure
that you have a contract which clarifies your rights to your code. If that
means that they have the right to repurpose your code, so be it, as long as
you retain the right to write the same code again for a different client
(right/write... I apologize for the rhymes).
Give them the code. What are they going to do with it?
1. Hire some other dir developer who is equal to or beyond you in ability,
and will likely just toss your code in the dumpster while replicating the
functionality in his own style.
2. Is not as good of a coder, and will struggle to understand why his
modifications cause crashes.
I don't think you gain a thing from keeping your Dir source code. If you've
written a better Quake engine, then you might want to hold on to it. But, if
you're simply writing Dir code, then your ability to quickly produce code
that meets the client's requirements is what sets you apart from the shlubs.
If you feel threatened by shlubs, go and study hard.
As long as I retain my right to write similar code for a different client, I
don't care who has rights to my current project. I will do it better and
faster the next time, largely because I share that code with smarter people
than myself.
The subject of the thread amuses me - we constantly give away our lingo to
the members of this list.
2 cents,
Kurt
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