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We had a course where we, the students, got connected with companies who could pitch ideas for us to choose. So we were to develop something for a company for free, but that probably won't be so bad, right? When the course was over we told the company we would fix any critical bugs that appeared after the final prototype was developed. We only had 8 weeks to complete the project, and that includes documentation (project plan etc) and other "school stuff" like an essay on what we've learned and so on. In other words, didn't have enough time to develop what the company was really looking for. Still those guys is bugging us about minor bugs they want fixed or "could you just implement this feature" . The course is over, they have all the source code so they could hire someone else to do it (or us, you could pay us you know?) but nooooo they think we owe it to them. We gave them a fully functional application to use, free of charge, but that still isn't enough. And they threaten with "but you can use this in a future resume" (yea we had to sign a NDA). Fuck it, am I being a whiny bitch?

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    Not at all! I had the same thing for my senior project. minus the essay. signed NDAs and everything. to hell if they want you to fix some stuff for free. that's ridiculous.
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    I agree, it's ridiculous. Glad it's not only me and my two fellow developers in my project group who thinks so. We discussed earlier today we would only continue working on it if they'd pay us. Good to hear others agreeing with us. :)
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    Tell them you've founded a company supporting it and charge them for non reoccurring engineering (NRE) works or say since you're now a full company they can buy your engineers out and have them work in house rather than pay the ongoing NRE work.
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