Software LC - Nov. 2009

A software vendor (Provider) and a customer purchasing this software project.

A way to make sure the vendor gets his money and the customer gets the software & source (If agreed)

If I am the customer, I am willing to pay (Maybe not 100% up front) but at the end let's say i pay the 100% and expect to get the sources, as agreed. how can I be sure I get all source, the most updated and if at all? the developer can get the money and send nothing  at the end. and how can the developer make sure he gets all the money for the project, once he sends the code for evaluation?

The suggestion is to develop a module which can be plugged into development environment such as Visual Studio. when initiating the project, the developer gets a specific key for the project and has! to install this module. the module is activated on a new project (software project in the visual studio). all source files created in this project must be under this module. this module actually sends all the time/on compilation/else... the entire project to a 3rd party. this 3rd party (As in LC) holds the developer money as well as the sources. when the project is done to the satisfactory of both sides, the payment is sent to the provider, and source to the customer

This can be very useful in the 'Cloud' concept. already you can develop applications online. web compilers etc.

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