From: Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@...>
Date: 2005-11-11T03:31:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to time-limit a rails/ruby application

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Forget the lawyer. Hire a hitman, they might be cheaper!

On 11/10/05, junk5@microserf.org.uk <junk5@microserf.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Get a lawyer to send a letter giving them a hard deadline for payment,
> warning that you will take them to court if payment is not made in full
> by that date. Ideally, it would be sensible to have a clause in
> whatever contract you signed with the customer stating that they incur
> your legal costs if they refuse to pay in a timely manner, but if not
> you'll have to swallow this cost yourself. If you don't have any
> written contract with your customer, then you may have to put this one
> down to experience.
>
> You can waste a lot of time writing code that protects you, but in the
> end it will come down to a test in code that essentially reads "if
> allowed=3D=3Dtrue then do_it() else do_not()"; if your customer thinks it=
's
> worth their while, they'll just find and modify this code. The reason
> the big boys write this kind of protection is that they have millions
> of customers and assume that only a small (and acceptable) number will
> modify the code. The big boys can't afford to take every one of their
> customers to court (it would be too expensive and they'd lose all their
> customers). You only have one customer; if you have a proper contract,
> you should easily be able to take them to court. You'll lose their
> future custom, but I guess you'd rather them be a drain on your
> competitors' resources than your own.
>
> I imagine that a scary letter from a lawyer will encourage them to pay
> up and that a trip to court won't be needed.
>
>
>

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