Hi all, Since I've got a bit of first-hand knowledge & opinions about the MWM program, please allow me to unload some of it from my head :)
At 1:30 PM -0400 10/26/01, Roy Crisman wrote: >only by pushing really hard have I ever been able to convince any >project manager on up to CEO to actually put those logos in. Legalese is usually intimidating. Showing them the agreement should have been enough. If not, then they are the ones in 'violation'. >And to this day, I don't think anyone has actually done the 'send >two discs and all these papers to Macromedia' part of it. I can attest to having seen SEVERAL ROOMS PILED FULL of product that was complying with the MWM. Row after row after row of bookcases all loaded & categorized & sorted. Opinion: There were tons of the weirdest projectors imaginable. Director creators make some of the greatest stuff. >1) All that legalese is hard to understand. Even the lawyer at the >last company and I weren't sure whether we, the developers, had to >do it, or if the customer paying us to develop was responsible (and >they probably never knew about it). I believe the shipper of the product is responsible. But if you are developing the entire Director content, then this is part of your deliverable and represents an itemized item that you should be billing for. Benefit: This can be completely reusable work It can be a single stub movie that gets billed on every project & gets called when the 'last' movie quits. >2) the 'helpful summary' about the logo is different from the legal >writing (excluding the send two discs part, etc.) > >3) All the requirements are 'hid' enough that only those of us who >are anal ever really bother finding and reading them in the first >place. MWM has been is a root or second level folder on the CD for several releases. Hopefully most owners would browse at least that deep. >4) Sketchy about 'my company is being paid to develop this >presentation that's being run on a laptop to show to potential >customers and never delivered' My feeling was that demos were considered exempt. hth -Buzz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
