>>Hi Jim and thank you for your answer....It is not so much giving up the source
>>code that is the problem...the boss wants me to teach him how to be me and show
>>him how I make EXEs...He wants to learn what I know about programming...we at the universalthread share things, but this is different or is it? That is my concern....:)
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>This is very interesting. I actually something similiar happen to myself. My solution was to provide the source code (which was actually part of our original agreement) which I did not have any complaints about, but the 'boss' wanted me to teach her how to do all the programming needed at her end and to make any needed modifications.
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>Since training was not part of the original (verbal) agreement (only source code), I told her so. I then wrote up a contract explaining what would be covered under the training and support aspect of her request. Also, I noted that the boss would have to purchase her own copy of Visual Foxpro, and any third party add-ons.
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>Maybe something similiar would work in your case.
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>Side note: as a result my boss did purchase all the necessary software and attempted to learn the software (while trying to perform her main job) and realized that it wasn't such a good idea to begin with.
Hi Ken...thanks for the information....that tells me to have a complete
agreement in writing before any coding is done....thanks again....:)