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| MapPoint and Bad Directions --- An old acquaintance of mine just received a registered letter demanding to be paid back for the program that is sending trucks all over the place PLUS damages for loss of business. Who holds the ball in this case?
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| Re: MapPoint and Bad Directions ---
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When the programmer is hired per working hour, then the customar is responcible, but depending on the knowledge of the programmer the ball can swing back to the programmer When there is made a price in advance then programmer is sure always responcible. If he cannot deliver what customar ask then no pay. However it has to be very clear what is asked in the order form. If customar explicitely ask to work with a particular program as Mappoint, and it is indeed Mappoint that does not do what customar ask then responcible is Microsoft. But again an expert is needed to hire, and again he has to prove what is wordth. So there is law and logic. Gooing to court is also both of them and depending on judge. Normally judges are not programmers, so you have to have avoid this matter. But the best thing to do always is to negotiate with customar. Check and try to understeand his specific problem, and try to solve it, eventually with workarounds. If you give a little then customar give also a little. We have a proverb that sound something like: "you have to do a little water in the wine, to make everyone pleased", or another one: "keep the church in the middle of town, some people go others not, but nobody will disturb". Translation not so well but sure you understeand the meaning. Hopes this helps
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| Re: MapPoint and Bad Directions --- Quote:
So think on the church and the wine
__________________ rgds, Wilfried Mestdagh www.mestdagh.biz MapPoint coding demo Order MapPoint 2009 with Routing and User Tools Spreadsheet |
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