I think you're both dreaming. If you wrote that program on your own time and then sold it to the customer, you could sell it on whatever terms you and they could agree on, including residuals if that's what you (and they) want. If they paid you to write it, then it's theirs, that's all.
...Unless, as has been pointed out, you manage to make residuals a condition of your employment. If you think you can get your employer to agree to pay you for your time and then pay you again when the program runs, well, feel free to demand that. I'll watch. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he absolutely had to. -from Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2023 15:08 When a bank runs an EFTPOS transaction, a fee is charged, all thanks to some code. When they run a mortgage amortization program, a debit occurs on a periodic basis. The whole system of direct debits generates a transfer of funds from a customer to the code executor... -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Dave Beagle Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2023 15:07 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. --- 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. -----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
