[NTLUG:Discuss] FW: motivating shady clients to payup

[Daniel Hauck]

Actually, contractual timers in software are pretty common.  I worked for an
ATM service company where they bought an AS/400 solution from Arkansas
Systems that employed the same type of tactic.  And sure enough, my company
didn't pay and the ability to add new ATM accounts was suspended until
payment was made.  And I didn't see anything unethical about that.

Doing actual damage is unethical, but CDRWIN is a program that intentionally
makes coasters of your CDs if it detects that you have hacked the software
in some way.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Simmons" <lance at lsimmons.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 09:35
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] FW: motivating shady clients to payup


> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:25:41PM -0500, Greg Edwards wrote:
> >
> > I'm a contractor by profession and what Jeremy has suggested is way
> > out of line.  If you have doubts about getting paid then make sure
> > your contract has provisions in it to insure you get paid.  You don't
> > leave viruses or bombs in your software.  That is NOT professional!!
>
> I'm not a computing professional (I teach philosophy), but the proposals
> being discussed certainly don't sound professional to me.  I can easily
> envision the university I work for suing any contractor who did the
> sorts of things being discussed here.  And once the courts get involved
> in anything, the party with more money at its disposal has a huge
> advantage.
>
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