[brl]

> Simple...sue him.

That's probably not going to help the OP achieve what he really wants, getting his software finished.

The programmer he hired agreed to do the work for about $8 / hour. Not sure a lawsuit can possibly make sense from an economic perspective since people that work for near minimum wage don't have a lot of extra cash to cough up for monetary damages.

[vaksel]

Neither will waiting for the current guy to finish. If someone took his project seriously they'd be done in a couple of weeks, couple of months tops. What he needs to do is look back at his guy's performance in the last couple of months, and see if that level would be enough to get him over the finish line.