Olin Lathrop embedinc.com> writes: > In fact, if this contractor is doing anything else then his bid is highly > suspect. His time is worth very little or he has no idea what he's getti= ng > into. If his time is worth so little, there's probably a good reason. I= f > he doesn't understand the problem, that's bad too. Either way you want t= o > get nowhere near this guy if he is planning on writing a reasonable amoun= t > of original code. Well eventually, after months of list and search engine hiccups, the 1000 o= dd beta testers on this list will finally find most bugs and then his software= will be as good or as bad as the average thing he could install now and save the time. (this being written with tongue planted in cheek) (Aside: NOBODY writes untested and unproven code and releases it into a production environment with >1000 users over night) -- Peter --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .