[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by cellarius

If I'm expected to pay upfront, I expect to get something in return, not only see something. Especially since I would want to see the code in order to judge code quality. If I decide at any given point that I am not satisfied or want to discontinue the project, I have the code that has been produced until that time, and the coder has the money for what he coded until that moment.

I had seen some of the code, but not the whole package. Given 1 or 2 key files as "examples" of what was going into the whole package. Nothing that could be used by it's self mind you, but enough to see that things were being worked on and that the code was sound.

The developers stance was he was protecting himself from me just taking the work and running. My stance for paying him in installments was along the same lines.

To everything there is 2 sides of a coin. At the time I understood where it seemed he was coming from.