-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 6:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)
<SNIP> I have lived the pain, to the point of production failing, and losing revenue from expired keys. There a legal venues when a contract is not being honoured. <SNIP> So here I am, a start-up vendor. You have decided that me taking you to court for breach (non-payment) is a good thing, because you don't want to pay for the software that we've been supporting... 3 years later, in a FED court (because of us not being in the same state, or whatever) we still haven't been paid, but we're having to fork out money for a lawsuit after having shutdown the company. >From my perspective, as a vendor, an ounce of prevention is worth more than the grief and headache of such a lawsuit (let's see, there are the depositions, the meetings with attorneys to respond to various motions (rather than doing things that generate CASH FLOW), the experts who have to look at our financials and determine how much you have hurt us, then hopefully we can demonstrate fraud (very tough), etc. -- It does happen, I WAS an officer in a company that is in the middle of this -- however, not in mainframe software, no one in mainframes would do this, right?). Later, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
