From the perspective of an e-commerce consultant, the contracts generally state that we WILL be doing this for others, since this is our business. It should state that explicitly, since this is the company's livelyhood. Even if we pull out parts of the code we custom wrote for a client and make into a product or package that we then custom-fit into their competitor's site, that should be okay. But directly unplugging the code from customer A's site and plugging it into customer B's site is a not good. The look, feel and workflow should be different. The engine functionality and bottom-line purpose/feature can be the same. First-to-market is a big factor, preventing a competitor from having it is not, since the competitor will eventually see it and have some other consultant develop it. I worked with one company that actually discussed the legalese in detail. Since they knew that their competitors could get another firm to duplicate the functionality on their own sites, they allowed us to leave those conditions in the contract and used is as a leverage point to win some other points. Cheers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Micro Eng" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [OT]: writing a contract > Work I am doing now for one place...basically says, don't go and use the > stuff you do for me and do the same thing for someone else but your free to > use whatever you develop (techniques, routines,etc) for anything else. I > mean, come on, why would a place pay money for work done and then allow the > same product to be built by someone else as well? > > OK...so wonder what others charge per hour for PIC codin? > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body