From PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Thu Nov 14 10:21:57 2002 Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.13) id A9C5ED000EA; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:21:57 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <6.007D84BB@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:07:59 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 8054 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:47:15 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 4690; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:46:27 -0500 Received: from *unknown [65.112.57.227] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 320) via TCP with ESMTP ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:46:26 EST X-Warning: mitvma.mit.edu: Host *unknown claimed to be webmail.saltonusa.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.10 March 22, 2002 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on NOTES/SALTON(Release 5.0.10 |March 22, 2002) at 11/14/2002 11:47:04 AM, Serialize complete at 11/14/2002 11:47:04 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:47:01 -0600 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: llile@SALTONUSA.COM Subject: Re: [OT]: Standard contract for work? To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU X-RCPT-TO: Status: R X-UIDL: 277600472 X-Evolution-Source: pop://mailinglist%40farcite.net@mail.farcite.net/ X-Evolution: 000006be-0000 Go to nolo.com. Buy their downloadable book called "standard contracts for small business and consultants " or something near to that title. Download it, and take the boilerplate contract they have in the book that is most appropriate, and massage it a little. When you are satisfied, take it to your lawyer and say "this is my standard contract what is wrong with it." My clients never balked at this contract, and my lawyer thought it was peachy. He never knew it came from NOLO. NOLO.com is a really great resource for this kind of thing. I can't recommend them highly enough. http:// www.nolo.com -- Lawrence Lile Micro Eng Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 11/14/02 07:42 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [OT]: Standard contract for work? I really think it depends on who you are contracting with. My current contract work...they said....we need to do something to protect ourselves and I said sure...whatever you want to protect YOUR investment that I am doing for you. They are only worried that I will take the code and design and do it for a competitor. I have ethics that would prevent me from doing this, but they have used others in the past that well....didnt feel the same way. Put yourself in thier shoes. You hire someone to do work, and they fail yet still want to be paid? >From: Ray Gallant >Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Subject: [OT]: Standard contract for work? >Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:51:09 -0400 > >Do you require a CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT for a design, consultation/service >that you are offering or are you looking for an employment type? I have >some for design work that I could modify a bit and offer. In my pic driven >designs, the last thing to past hands is a copy of the code. I don't >mention this in the contract. I have gone to the length of setting a hit >counter for prototypes when non-volatile memory was available. >I believe design work should include a mutually created "scope of work" >document. Anybody can create gantt charts. >Congrad on the contract. >{slewrate} > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Josh Koffman" >To: >Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:14 AM >Subject: [OT]: Standard contract for work? > > > > So, here am I faced with the prospect of coming up with some sort of > > contract for some work I will be doing. Does anyone here have a standard > > type of contract they are willing to share? > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics