🚀 go-pugleaf

Wait until you start interviewing and they start asking where your
three years of job experience are.  Now *that* is *arrogant.*  :)


Ruel Smith wrote in message <925480201.467.9@news.remarQ.com>...
>Although I'm still a student and not a professional _yet_, I for one do
>find your request arrogant. To ask someone to spend their time to do
>work for you for a "small fee", assuming that small means less than a
>hundred bucks or so, that will be distributed commercially is ludicrous.
>I think your attitude in answering people's questions about your intent
>and so forth sucks as well. I hope no one bothers with your project.
>--
>
>
>Ruel Smith
>Cincinnati, OH
>
>Just say no to confusing .ini, .bat, .dll, .exe, and BIOS and buy a
>Mac!!!
>
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>In article <372bb12e.5497956@news.i-55.com>, need_program@vb.com wrote:
>
>
>> I didn't ask anyone to do it for free, I said I previously had some
>> offers to do it for free, the last time I asked.  I said I could not
>> afford to go to a professional and pay to have a project done.  I
>> thought I'd come here and see if anyone might do it for a small fee,
>> someone who does this kind of thing on the side and may have already
>> done something similar that he could work from.  Or possibly just fix
>> the near perfect program that I did get a guy to write me for free...
>>
>> On the profit angle, I intend to use it for a commercial CD, but have
>> yet to do any real market analysis on it, because without a decent
>> program to show it on, I have nothing to market.  Assuming it is
>> successful, I may make a couple hundred dollars on the whole thing.
>> That doesn't even make a dent in the $1200 I spent building a PC that
>> could handle the task.
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:14:38 -0400, "Jeff Mullen" <jmullen@dolbey.com>
>> wrote:
>> ::Speaking as a professional software developer, I have some interest
>> ::in your project.  Speaking as a very busy man, I wish I had the time
>> ::to do the job right for you.  I decline with MUCH more respect than
>> ::you seem to be getting, though it DOES seem rather hypocritical of
>> ::you to ask that someone write such a program for you for free when
>> ::your obvious intent is to try to make a profit on it (I'm obviously
missing
>> ::something here).  In lieu of cash, what would you offer a
subcontractor?
>> ::Code ownership?  Royalties?
>> ::
>>