Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:51:24 09/05/00
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On September 05, 2000 at 15:57:35, Chessfun wrote: >On September 05, 2000 at 15:34:24, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>There are reasons not to tell ideas. >> >>1)A tester may keep an idea as a secret if (s)he wants to use the idea for >>his(her) program in the future and do not want other programmers to know about >>it in order to have an advantage. > > >Then IMO this tester should never have applied to test, and should look >at his/her own motivations. This tester can change the motivation if (s)he gets some money. > > >>2)I think that some ideas may be productive to most programmers and the testers >>can tell these ideas only to the company _X_ so company _Y_ will not have the >>advantage of knowing the ideas. > > >Again if that be the case that tester is not honorable. If he/she was testing >for both _X_ and _Y_ then they both have the right to share in the idea. >Assuming the idea relates to both programs. > > >>If the tester does not get money from company _X_ the tester may not keep the >>idea as secret and tell it for everyone. > > >Or he could call company _X_ and say "I have this great idea ! I'll sell you >it for $0.20 hour" then he could call _Y_ and say "_X_ have offered me $0.20 >hour what you offer?". The whole notion to me that those types of things may >happen is abhorrent. Hopefully both _X_ and _Y_ would tell the tester to take >a hike and put the word out to all other comapnies about him/her and they would >never get to test anything again. This is exactly the reason that the tester will not threat company _X_ after the agreement was done. I also did not say exactly 0.1$ per hours but based on the money that _X_ earns. If the idea is very good the tester can get more money because _X_ will get more money. Uri
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