> unfortunetely, i have been burned in the past from clients that have > requested source code, under the guise of "local backup", and > have seen my > scripts/objects/code(that i spent months developing and > optimising) wind up > in their next projects.. maybe its my own fault for commenting code > extensivly, but it is necessary for other developers here to > be able to > modify my scripts. > > I guess i am in the minority in thinking that our work is > equated to ,say, a > photograpers; in that you grant rights to the client to use > the image, but > you do not give them the negatives.
well if you can get away with it, more power to you. you got paid to do the work & now you aren't really delivering what they expected. if they let you get away with it, it's up to them. this has been thrashed out a lot in the past & those that do do, and those that don't... Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. al<at>cambersoft<dot>com http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. A famous linguist once said: "There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." YEAH, RIGHT [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!]
