[consulting] Contract > Developer liable for bugs?

[Adam Mordecai]

additionally there is such a demand for drupalistas these days, they'd  
be foolish to walk away. Make them meet your demands. They need you  
more than you need them.

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On Aug 6, 2008, at 8/6/08•9:51 , Roshan Shah - Gloscon wrote:

Agreed. Bug is a bug but the fundamental difference is that Open  
Source software is not owned by 1 company just as it is in proprietary  
world.  Drupal is popular because of its stable core and a very strong  
developer and user community. But there is no way any consultant or  
any consulting company should accept any financial liability should  
there be any bug/defect in Drupal - because it is collective  
development and contribution of many people with no intention of  
getting $$$ by contributing back the code to the community.

When someone works, they do work for here. Our contracts have nearly  
60+ assumptions where we cover almost every risk. We even limit our  
liability to core or contributed modules or the development we do to  
only 30 days post deployment. We even have contracts written that  
clients have to test the staging version and report all bugs within 7  
days after we put the development version on staging.

Adam is right - the way the original contract in this thread is  
drafted is a huge risk. We certainly would walk away from the project  
rather than get into such contracts.

Roshan
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Jason Flatt <drupal at oadaeh.net> wrote:
On Wed Aug 6 2008 4:20:49 pm Sam Cohen wrote:
 >
 > When building a Drupal site, I would never assume liability for bugs,
 > unless bugs are very clearly defined as part of something I  
wrote.   It's
 > not like they're paying a $100,000 licensing fee for the software.   
It's
 > open source after all. There are going to be bugs --
 >

I've got news for you. There are bugs in $100,000 licensing fee  
software. It
doesn't matter whether the source is open or closed. Making excuses  
for open
source software doesn't help its acceptance.


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