Re: [PHP] when clients go bad

2003-09-23 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
Hi Jay and everyone, Sorry about the belated reply but i do believe that "Work product for the customer belongs to the customer unless specifically stated differently in the contract" does not apply to source code. Obviously we are all programmers and not lawyers in this group but i stand by th

RE: [PHP] when clients go bad

2003-09-19 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] : As this is a very small market, for this one client I did not create a : contract - there was however a very detailed proposal which did not include : any source files. Whether it'll stand or not, we also had a verbal : agreement that they did not want any source files as at the time t

Re: [PHP] when clients go bad

2003-09-18 Thread Eugene Lee
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:31:52PM -0400, Tim Thorburn wrote: : : As this is a very small market, for this one client I did not create a : contract - there was however a very detailed proposal which did not include : any source files. Whether it'll stand or not, we also had a verbal : agreemen

Re: [PHP] when clients go bad

2003-09-18 Thread Tim Thorburn
As this is a very small market, for this one client I did not create a contract - there was however a very detailed proposal which did not include any source files. Whether it'll stand or not, we also had a verbal agreement that they did not want any source files as at the time that we began o

Re: [PHP] when clients go bad

2003-09-18 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
From: "Tim Thorburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've done freelance web design for about 7 years now off and on. Just > recently I've found myself dealing with the worst clients in the history of > the world - ok, maybe not, but they've been pretty awful. > > After about a year of working together, th

RE: [PHP] when clients go bad

2003-09-18 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] ... [/snip] Work product for the customer belongs to the customer unless specifically stated differently in the contract. It is their intellectual property. I have coded both as an employee contractor for several years and it is always understood (unless the contract states differen

[PHP] when clients go bad

2003-09-18 Thread Tim Thorburn
Hi, I've done freelance web design for about 7 years now off and on. Just recently I've found myself dealing with the worst clients in the history of the world - ok, maybe not, but they've been pretty awful. After about a year of working together, the business relationship became so bad that