Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!kurtzman From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Work for Hire contracts Message-ID: <11688@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 18 Aug 88 21:10:09 GMT References: <25638@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <730058@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <768@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 14 In article <768@helios.ee.lbl.gov> beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard) writes: >I think another fan to the flame of this discussion is that we compare >what other professions do to control the results of their efforts. I >think the analogy of the lawyer is a good one (though others may not). >The lawyer produces legal documents from "boiler plate" a lot of the time. >If he had to reinvent the wheel each time he takes a new job, a lot of >time would be wasted. The analogy to this in the computer programming world is a program like MacAPP. An interesting difference between the lawyers' templates and the programming template is that the lawyer buys it outright for a somewhat inexpensive price and then has free use of the template. The programmer, on the other hand, usually pays a good sum for a license to the template and then must continue to pay license fees.