Installed Product Orientation... an Attempt to Steal TME's CBT
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On March 6, 1992 TME was approached by Dave Etter to produce what he called a "quick and dirty" set of computer-based software tools to furnish user orientation on software supplied by LISC for the NOAVA program called Installed Product Orientation Tools (IPO). By definition this requirement is covered under the June 17, 1990 agreement for computer-based training, and LISC must therefore afford TME its First Right of Refusal privilege. On March 27, 1992 TME submitted an extremely reasonable price estimate for the IPO.
The period between March and May of 1991 was very difficult, indeed. There were contradictory and strange communications from LISC. Mike Kerr's machinations were especially troubling because he appeared to be on a personal mission to expel TME from the LISC building and erase it from the NOAVA program. On April 18, 1991 Clovice recorded some of these interactions, and his concerns about them, in a Personal Note from that time.
On May 1, 1992 TME received a Firm Fixed Price Statement of Work for the IP0. The document is significant in that it insists that LISC shall own all rights to the product, associated documentation, and its ultimate sale or distribution. Another rather curious reference in the document is the statement that "proprietary authoring languages are not acceptable." Because the agreement between TME and LISC regarding CBT states that TME shall own all rights to the software it develops, the question is raised if this was an attempt by LISC to claim all rights to CBT software was also a breach of its agreement with TME.
The period between March and May of 1991 was very difficult, indeed. There were contradictory and strange communications from LISC. Mike Kerr's machinations were especially troubling because he appeared to be on a personal mission to expel TME from the LISC building and erase it from the NOAVA program. On April 18, 1991 Clovice recorded some of these interactions, and his concerns about them, in a Personal Note from that time.
On May 1, 1992 TME received a Firm Fixed Price Statement of Work for the IP0. The document is significant in that it insists that LISC shall own all rights to the product, associated documentation, and its ultimate sale or distribution. Another rather curious reference in the document is the statement that "proprietary authoring languages are not acceptable." Because the agreement between TME and LISC regarding CBT states that TME shall own all rights to the software it develops, the question is raised if this was an attempt by LISC to claim all rights to CBT software was also a breach of its agreement with TME.
The document is significant in that it insists that LISC shall own all rights to the product, associated documentation, and its ultimate sale or distribution.