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"He received no royalties for his work despite it being among the most used Windows applications of all time." Anyone know why he would receive a "royalty" (es
by us0r 11y ago
"He received no royalties for his work despite it being among the most used Windows applications of all time."
Anyone know why he would receive a "royalty" (esp. as an intern)? I've seen big bonuses/stock options but never a royalty.
- incepted 11y agoNo reason. No employee at a company ever received royalty for the code they write for the company.
- georgemcbay 11y agoRoyalties are a thing in the game industry, not universal or even the norm, but they do exist. I mean, they do everything they can to screw employees out of them using Hollywood-style accounting, but it is incorrect to say "No employee at a company ever received royalty for the code they write for the company".
- oxryly1 11y agoTrue. I've both received and been screwed out of royalties while programming games on a salary.
- gohrt 11y agohttp://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Switcher.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Switcher.txt > I eventually negotiated the final agreement with Guy Kawasaki, where, in addition to the $100,000, I managed to get a 10% royalty of the wholesale price if Apple sold Switcher separately, which Steve swore they would never do, but eventually the royalty delivered another $50,000. This was written on a leave of absence, though.
- ido 11y agoHe explains in the first comment: A little clarification on Solitaire history. I wrote it for Windows 2.1 in my own time while an intern at Microsoft during the summer of 1988... ...A program manager on the Windows team saw it and decided to include it in Windows 3.0. It was made clear that they wouldn't pay me other than supplying me with an IBM XT to fix some bugs during the school year - I was perfectly fine with it and I am to this day.