He signed a contract to do the work, his lawyer (assuming he had one...) should have told him "look, you're getting this amount, nothing more". You can negotiate a contract and get ryalties and residuals and 'points', just like an actor in traditional media.
To: G4from128k "Would this actor have been willing to return the $100K (or more) if the game had lost money?"
Should actors and bands return their pay if the movie or album bomb? So why would he even entertain that idea?
End of the day, Michael Hollick is an idiot for not working with the lawyers for a better deal.
FTA: "86 percent of those who committed cybercrimes held technical positions and 90 percent had system administrator or privileged system access."
Ever think maybe us S.A's are just naturally vindictive, evil bastards that just don't give a rats ass, hell, we know the in/outs of every system we touch, have the power to do as we please and have no one notice.
Paranoid? Hell yeah, just as the company has to trust us with the systems, we have to trust them with our personal info on their laptops, on the front seat of the car while they're in the bar for the 5 hour lunch.
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He signed a contract to do the work, his lawyer (assuming he had one...) should have told him "look, you're getting this amount, nothing more". You can negotiate a contract and get ryalties and residuals and 'points', just like an actor in traditional media.
To: G4from128k "Would this actor have been willing to return the $100K (or more) if the game had lost money?"
Should actors and bands return their pay if the movie or album bomb? So why would he even entertain that idea?
End of the day, Michael Hollick is an idiot for not working with the lawyers for a better deal.
Netcraft confirms it, Debian is dying, the grave is dug, and it's bastard offspring, Ubuntu is lowering the casket.
The King is dead, long live FreeBSD
FTA: "86 percent of those who committed cybercrimes held technical positions and 90 percent had system administrator or privileged system access."
Ever think maybe us S.A's are just naturally vindictive, evil bastards that just don't give a rats ass, hell, we know the in/outs of every system we touch, have the power to do as we please and have no one notice.
Paranoid? Hell yeah, just as the company has to trust us with the systems, we have to trust them with our personal info on their laptops, on the front seat of the car while they're in the bar for the 5 hour lunch.
Bottom line, you get what you give, end of story.
*mmm* Marshall amps cranked to 11.
Since O.P used "windows" and "os" I figured I'd look around too...
Results 1 - 50 of about 11,300,000 for freebsd [definition]. (0.23 seconds)
Results 1 - 50 of about 3,810,000 for openbsd. (0.49 seconds)
Results 1 - 50 of about 4,610,000 for netbsd. (0.45 seconds)
Results 1 - 50 of about 80,100 for dragonflybsd. (0.20 seconds)
how much?
Mod to troll / flame / BSD s/BSD/GNU/g is dead...