Incorrect. Every time a program of mine ran, the company saved money and the executives got paid bonuses or salaries (often both) for my work.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, December 3, 2023, 3:01 PM, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: Interesting analogy. But surely there's one obvious difference: When an entertainment program runs, someone gets paid, and residuals mean whoever gets paid (by subscribers, say) has to share the receipts with the writers. But when a company runs a program they own, they don't receive any money for it; it's just work getting done. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been abandoned, and still obeys. -advice to a tempter, from The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Dave Beagle Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2023 14:17 I always thought this was something a union for IT workers would ask for in a contract. Why should actors get residuals every time a show runs and not the programmers every time their program runs? Written programs are every bit intellectual property as a TV program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
