[dba-Tech] Software reselling and development agreements'samples...

...ditto on Tech-Republic ...I used a template from them for all of my
current contracts ...and I do nothing of any substance without a written
contract and spec ...even clients where I have pre-paid consulting
relationships, if the task will exceed 50 billed hours, I go to a written
contract for it ...actually a separate tasking order added to the original
consulting contract so that we don't have to pay lawyers to wrangle over the
critical wording every time a new tasking comes up :)

William Hindman
Government is not reason, government is not persuasion,
government is force. It is a dangerous servant." G. Washington

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Sullivan" <jonsulli at swbell.net>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Software reselling and development
agreements'samples...


> Shamil,
>
> Good idea to get this sort of thing settled going in. While I have no
> advice to offer, there is a site that may have some examples you could
use.
>
> As a registered member (it is free) of Tech-Republic:
> http://techrepublic.com
> you are frequently offered the opportunity to download templates of
> agreements and contracts they and their members create in development
> and consulting.
>
> Also check both their IT Consultant section:
> http://techrepublic.com.com/2001-27-0.html;
> and their  IT Manager section: http://techrepublic.com.com/2001-26-0.html.
>
> Both sections have multiple tabs to explore and each have their own
> Downloads. This might be a good place to start looking for examples of
> the type of contract you need.
>
> As an afterthought, www.builder.com may have something to offer as well.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> John Sullivan
>
> Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >If anybody has some typical subject's docs could you please e-mail them
> >to me?
> >What I need is a kind of contracting agreement defining conditions under
> >which a programmer works for a company writing new code and making
> >her/his own code invested in the products of this company. I wanted to
> >keep copyright on my own invested code(which I wasn't paid for by the
> >company) and algorithms  to maybe reuse them in my own products - all
> >the agreements I've seen so far are very limiting programmers' rights to
> >reuse such code IMO.
> >
> >I wanted also to have clearly defined a "direct competition" term - what
> >can be considered as a direct competition with a software product on the
> >market? Should it be the one having, say, 80% of the features of the
> >another product or...?
> >
> >If I use just part of the code of the software of the other company I
> >work for (which I allowed to use in my own products) how can I avoid to
> >go into direct competition with this company? - I don't want and I don't
> >plan to compete with it but I'm not sure I understand what "direct
> >competition" term means in details. Could you please shed some light on
> >this question?
> >
> >TIA,
> >Shamil
> >
> >--
> >e-mail: shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
> >Web:   http://smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s
> >
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