Give up and start over with someone else.
$2500 for 2 months of work comes out to 8 dollars an hour. This isn't a good wage for a programmer anywhere and should have been your first hint that this wasn't going to work out.
$2500 for 2 months of work comes out to 8 dollars an hour. This isn't a good wage for a programmer anywhere and should have been your first hint that this wasn't going to work out.
Depending on the contract structure, he might be free to sell it on his own, give/sell it to a competitor, or release it on the web for free. Meanwhile, poor OP is now six months behind schedule and has to start over.
Sorry but I don't know how you can be so black and white about the issue without us knowing more information. If OP followed this advice without thinking through the problem, he could be much, much worse off. It could be that you are right but, without more info about the contract, we don't know.
You're very wrong about this. I ran an outsource programming company in the Philippines for years, and $8 per hour is far higher than the highest rates I ever paid my best programmers.
Try living in a third world country some time, and get used to the labor rates they expect, before you make blanket statements about what's a good rate "anywhere".
There are literally thousands of qualified programmers in third world countries who would die for a chance to earn $8 per hour. Many of them are lucky to earn $8 a day ...
So inside a company, $1250 is less than a week's worth of work for anyone good?