I would ordinarily cite a comment on HN but I have a strict no shaming policy; take it as "a conveniently copy/pastable example of a very common flawed belief in the developer community."
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Free professional output is available from many people, including yours truly, and it does exactly what it says on the tin, not what you might wished it did. That second thing? That's called a "deliverable." You can ask for it to be specified in a Statement of Work.
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You can feel free to ask any professional for a rough estimate on what number they will write on a Statement of Work; many will happily indicatively quote you. If I were not full-time employed, my last number would have been $30k per week.
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You don't have to like that number. You don't have to agree with that number. You just have to convince the people who control the money at your company to promise to pay that number before you have any moral claim to assign work to me.
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Tip: resize the window before the screenshot to make it more compact. It's very difficult to read such a long image on mobile

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Agreed. And he probably know that. He provided a free service. There was no implied "fitness to the task'. So this seems to b an example of his point.
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The only thing more expensive than a good contract for a business transaction is not having one

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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. What do these devs think this means?
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Contracts are so very necessary precisely because they put boundaries around “should” and “ought to”. It empowers and protects both parties. It took me a long time to think that way.
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