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Originally Posted by mryellow
Alot of companies do this. The namebrand in CMS for example.
Your customers request a feature, they pay full-rates for the development.
Few months later the feature is released to all other users, destroying the person who
paid for it's competitive advantage and basically stealing their IP.
Personally I see that to be a cunt act. If you want to include a feature in software that
you'll be reselling then develop it on your own dime and not the customers.
For some reason people seem to accept that crap.
-Ben
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There are many times when a client pays for something knowing full well that it will be resold...and also times when someone requests a feature that we had already planned to include but were not planning to develop for several months. In other words, the client is simply paying to get something done faster as opposed to giving us novel ideas we hadn't already thought of.
We've yet to have a client request a feature that provided a competetive advantage that required them to demand exclusivity.