Re: time-based beta termination system
Re: time-based beta termination system
- Subject: Re: time-based beta termination system
- From: David Blanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:58:22 -0600
ALEX .... I love your attitude .... Got any extra clients laying around for
me? I once had a client who said he really liked working with me because I
would listen to his ideas and did not act superior ... Well, I finally told
him that for the $75 / hr he was paying me (circa 1986) I would listen as
long as he wanted to talk. It took him awhile to get it.
Peace.
DB
On 7/24/03 10:42 AM, "Alex Curylo" <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 7/24/03 8:01 AM, Josh Ferguson at email@hidden wrote:
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> My argument is that stopping these types of crackers is not going to earn you
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> much money.
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Hey, I'm a contractor. Spending as much time as the client wants on copy
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protection damn well DOES earn me much money. In one case, I actually made
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MORE off the copy protection than the actual program.
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> Figure out how much it's going to cost you to do that, then compare that with
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> what you may lose if you don't.
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Well, for ME, I lose out by *not* spending as much time as they want
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implementing copy protection, no matter how silly, so your argument earns a
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rousing cheer of complete indifference.
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There is, I grant, the argument to be made that I'm to some degree acting
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irresponsibly to the client by doing what they want they want done after
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only token opposition (I've never implemented any copy protection more
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complicated than "check the name of a mounted volume" without at least
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mentioning my belief they're wasting their money, my sense of responsibility
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does stretch *that* far) rather than standing up for common sense and making
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a blanket refusal to do any work that I believe isn't worth in the real
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world the value they place on having it done.
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That, of course, is a silly argument. My job is to make ME money, and if
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their ideas of how my work will make THEM money I happen to think are
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completely wrongheaded, that's not my problem, is it? And if I have indeed
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voiced a concern that their priorities are misplaced, and they ignore said
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concern, then ought I to feel any guilt about doing what they want done? Of
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course not, yes? After all, it's POSSIBLE that I could be wrong, yes?
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> you'll find that it's really not worth the money.
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Who is this "you" to which this notion is addressed? Not I, certainly! Hell,
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copy protection bought the nice fast machine I'm typing this on!
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