AVR-Chat

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM, PEZHMAN BOUSSINA <pbpc@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think you should contact the company and tell them what you want if the
> code is good.  If the code is junk then do it from scratch.
>

Amazingly often, the answer is "NO", even when the prospective client is
willing to pay very well.

I've been on both sides of that one. Ex:  Verifone refused all advances for
several years, eventually one outfit wrote their own ROM for the
applications they wanted to do.  They bought our terminals (at full price)
popped out our roms, and put theirs in.

I never heard a coherent explanation of why we refused this so strongly.  In
the end, it was a win-win except for the lost time to market while they
developed their rom.  It never caused us any grief.

Sometimes those little customers turn into big customers, and I've found
that they frequently remember who helped them get there, and who didn't.

I've never thought that it was a good idea to say "no" when a customer is
willing to buy a product, even if there are changes needed.  "That will be
expensive" is definitely acceptable to say, but I really try to avoid
telling paying customers I don't want their money. (For the pedants, this
does not include agreements to do illegal things, or rip someone off)


> --
> There is no computer problem which cannot be solved by proper application
> of a sufficiently large hammer.
>


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