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better you read their white paper about FTOSX . instead of hysterically laughing at their tentative to make some money in this crazy world...maybe you even want to try it... :)

How about this little gem: hereWhat is "FT KDE"? and how is it that they are responsible for it in the "FT KDE by Future Technology" sense..

"This Future Technology" company appears to be little more than liars, thieves and MBAs.

Inmmediately I offer money to him, because I suppose that their job was not on computer, however he start to work for us.

I send to him different jobs missions TODO, on this and on another matter

I don't know about the rest of you slashdotters, but I find this post very hard to comprehend.

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He ask US$ 25 for hour and send an invoice for 6,300 US$, for 219 hours in one month and half.

I promise him to be paid. After this, he start to apply a politic like: "Or you pay me ... or I will publish on my website that you don't pay me".

So why didn't you pay him? Its clear to me that he has developed software for you for the time he has billed you, when he dosen't recieve his money he obviously goes into a defensive move.

However, I don't pay him, simply because this guy works, only the matter he haves in its brain. If you ask some job, he said wait.

... Then, he send a 6,300 US$ invoice and all the software he wrote was available for free to everyone!

Well thats the whole point with GPL'ed software, did you assume that by employing him you would automaticly get ownership of the Liquid code, including copyright and all that applies?

Sorry pal, thats not how it works. I've looked at your webpage and it seems quite clear that you published the software. (see This) And not to mention adding it to your new sofware product FTOSX

You claim that he hasn't done the required work, and still refuse to pay him, you act like this software he has been working on and releasing through GPL is yours (You even offer downloads, again for free)

No attorneys will be contacted ... and this chapter finish here.

I really hope this isn't it, because he is at least entitled to financial means, I've seen these kinds of exuses before, all from buried Dot-Com buisnesses that are trying to milk their employees out of the last penny.

I have to ask however, why didn't you just fire him when you realized he wasn't going to dance by your pipe, insted you lured him with false promises for 5 months, causing a financial ruin.

Mr Anonymous.

Inmmediately I offer money to him, because I suppose that their job was not on computer, however he start to work for us.

I send to him different jobs missions TODO, on this and on another matter

I don't know about the rest of you slashdotters, but I find this post very hard to comprehend.

.

He ask US$ 25 for hour and send an invoice for 6,300 US$, for 219 hours in one month and half.

I promise him to be paid. After this, he start to apply a politic like: "Or you pay me ... or I will publish on my website that you don't pay me".

So why didn't you pay him? Its clear to me that he has developed software for you for the time he has billed you, when he dosen't recieve his money he obviously goes into a defensive move.

However, I don't pay him, simply because this guy works, only the matter he haves in its brain. If you ask some job, he said wait.

... Then, he send a 6,300 US$ invoice and all the software he wrote was available for free to everyone!

Well thats the whole point with GPL'ed software, did you assume that by employing him you would automaticly get ownership of the Liquid code, including copyright and all that applies?

Sorry pal, thats not how it works. I've looked at your webpage and it seems quite clear that you published the software. (see This) And not to mention adding it to your new sofware product FTOSX

You claim that he hasn't done the required work, and still refuse to pay him, you act like this software he has been working on and releasing through GPL is yours (You even offer downloads, again for free)

No attorneys will be contacted ... and this chapter finish here.

I really hope this isn't it, because he is at least entitled to financial means, I've seen these kinds of exuses before, all from buried Dot-Com buisnesses that are trying to milk their employees out of the last penny.

I have to ask however, why didn't you just fire him when you realized he wasn't going to dance by your pipe, insted you lured him with false promises for 5 months, causing a financial ruin.

Mr Anonymous.

Equally amusing: their "synonymous page".
FTOSX is a MacOSX Linux Based
Um, okay, whatever that means.

About the only thing I see in Future Tech's future is a big fat lawsuit from Apple. Check this out:
http://www.FutureTG.com/FTOSX/

It also appears that they were unable to pay a web designer.

It's no wonder that they "can't pay their employees", they're charging $49.95 for a beta version of the FTOSX. Not only are they not going to sell enough of these to pay for a developer to build anything, they aren't going to come close to paying a legal team to fight the OSX name usage battle.

Why would he want to work for them in the first place? I certainly wouldn't work a company that has *that* kind of design/html on their front page. I mean come on. View the source guys.

This is actually the worst html I have come across in some time now.

Come on, who didn't burst out laughing when they saw Future Tech's website?

Did anyone notice the "Utilities" CD that FT is offering? This is a direct ripoff of the rather popular Wimp32 software "Norton Utilities". I hope that FT's legal counsel is on a retainer, because if Symantec sees that web page they will tear FT a new Osshole.




Darl

Their site looks like it's been designed by a group of kids for a school project.

Liquid is very damn cool though, if you don't mind wasting some cpu cycles for your eye's pleasure :)