> > I'm not certain that releasing unlock codes or whatever is feasible > > as it would seriously damage the companies ability to be sold on if > > a catastrophe happened, as the prvious version of the software > > would be available to use easily in unlocked form. > Uh, it wouldn't be released until the corporate entity ceased to > exist. If there's something to be sold, then it hasn't ceased. A > properly designed corporate "will" would deal with the issue of > transfer of control of the escrowed key to the new entity.
Sorry I've been really busy today, trying to join in the debate and rushing responses back. Let me try to be clearer - escrow seems fine if the company transfers ownership without stopping trading or working. What if it were 6 months cessation of business? Under these circumstances keys would not be distributed as escrow would not take effect if receivers/insolvency practitioners were actively pursuing a sale as releasing the keys would seriously devalue the companies intellectual property. In such a situation some other form of backing up your right to use the program would be better. Emagic used to issue keys on floppy disc (way, way back!) and you could transfer the keys via the floppy. I wonder if there's some more up to date way of effecting the same idea? Perhaps that was what Darcy was talking about ... Darcy James Argue wrote: > I seem to recall someone saying something about at least creating > some method for a user to transfer their registration from one > computer to another without having to contact Coda Solving that is probably one of those conundrums like the public key encryption system. -- Simon Troup Digital Music Art ------------------------- Finale IRC channel server: irc.chatspike.net port: 6667 channel: #Finale ------------------------- _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
