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From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Software Costs (Was Re: g++ vs. cfront 2.0 in the Real World)
Summary: unplaned for costs
Message-ID: <1046@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 16:01:21 GMT
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Reply-To: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Organization: SoftCom, Inc. San Francisco
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The recent discussions on legal review of software licenses and copyrights
provides four new reasons why software is neither on budget nor on schedule:

  1.  Legal fees (for license review) were mis-judged in the initial
      estimate.

  2.  The time waiting for the lawers to review the various licenses was
      mis-judged in the initial estimate.

  3.  The extra time required due to use of the wrong tool (because the
      lawyers won't let you use the right tool) was not planned for.

  4.  The extra time required to make a tool (because the lawyers won't let
      you use any other tool) was not planned for.

Of course, the phrase ``the lawyer won't let...'' means ``company management
won't let'' unless blessed by the lawyers.

--marc
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//Marco S. Hyman
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