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From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
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Subject: Re: Work for Hire contracts
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Date: 18 Aug 88 21:10:09 GMT
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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.