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...the band pick out all the problems for us. When schedules get too tight and there are different priorities there's always a gang leader for a schism. That it plays into the hands of the great Satan duplicating the effort and splitting the community is a matter of grave concern for all. M$ will underbid any serious attempt at a mass migration to open source with hefty rebates, and there's little we can do against that except strive to be a serious alternative and not a bunch of fundamentalists picking at articles of faith. What's wrong about admitting that the u-g-o octals were too narro...

...rammer and we are still moving forward. The difficulty is that he lost his two partners ($$) and after almost 11 months on the job cannot commit to a completion date. Frankly, he is scared to because he has done so and been wrong multiple times already. When he started the job, I suspected he underbid it - but figured we''d cross that bridge when we got to it. In June I offered a bonus (50% of the origonal contract) in exchange for a managed schedule. They committed ...and missed/decided 4 weeks into it that it was impossible. Today he reaffirmed his committment to finish the proje...

I hired a friend of a friend to build my company a fairly substantial application. He quoted it, committed to it, and now says he has run out of money. I''ve offered him additional money/incentives ...twice. He continues to commit, and then, ultimately not make his commitment. I''m not sure what my options are. Ideally, I would like to simply fire him and hire someone to