Dear Bruce,

I absolutely agree with you. I have a big wish for living and working abroad, so I have to spend a lot of money for my education and internships...
In Russia, I always request advance - in the morning money - application tonight :) I am getting sometimes rude if customer do not pay last part of a contract - that is Russian reality, people understand only rude words and actions. I hope in the future we can avoid it.

It was pleasure to communicate with you.
Good luck! And thank you for your answer.

P.S. My project was not for education :) I wanted to show people how it is easy to use FoxPro for creating any applications. Now they know this word - FoxPro and my nickname was FoxPro too... :)

>Sergey,
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>I wouldn't worry about a backup in the UK that won't pay you. I'm sure we all have created "learning projects" for which we have not been paid for, or projects that we have done for PR purposes. But if our livelyhood depends on the code we write - we need to be paid for it or we will not be there to help them in the near future.
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>I had a client who wanted to pay only half what I billed him. He is no longer a client.
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>Via the internet and e-mail or pcAnywhere you can support your clients locally or internationally - but expect to be paid and make the arrangements up front.
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>Also, if I have a client that I trust (and I do trust most of them because they trust me), I will leave the source code on their system in case something soes happen to me.
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>Good luck
>Bruce