What's to stop a company from having you code and then saying "Oh, no, we dont feel like paying you." Honor is about all you have, and the thought of lawsuits.
With innocentive, they are backed by big names in the chemistry world who cant exactly stand to get a reputation of not honoring contracts, or else the whole system would fall apart.
They paid me my money just fine (quite helpfully really).
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What's to stop a company from having you code and then saying "Oh, no, we dont feel like paying you." Honor is about all you have, and the thought of lawsuits. With innocentive, they are backed by big names in the chemistry world who cant exactly stand to get a reputation of not honoring contracts, or else the whole system would fall apart. They paid me my money just fine (quite helpfully really).