On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:10:35PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
On 08/02/2009 08:00 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:20:15PM +0200, Ralf
Mardorf wrote:
As I have written before, less college tuitions
are similar to being paid.
Absolutely not.
If you run a business and I am your customer I am in no
way bound by any deals you make with suppliers, sponsors,
or whatever. The price I pay for you product or service is
the price. If any deals you make with others allow you to
offer a better price that does not mean you are 'paying' me
or that I have any obligations as an employee towards you.
Unless you sign a contract that says otherwise when you become a customer.
Such a contract may stipulate obligations I have *as
as customer*. It can never turn me into an employee.
A second contract would be required to do that, and
whatever is stipulated there can have no impact on
my position w.r.t. the first.
If we were to discuss a business partnership we could
agree on whatever we wanted and put that in a contract.
But in most civilised countries any other form of
contract would have to clearly define the nature of it
(sale, rent, employment, etc.) and anything going beyond
the scope of that single nature would be null and void.
Ciao,
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FA
Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia รจ troppo stretta e lunga.