David W. Fenton wrote:
On 9 Mar 2005 at 22:57, Simon Troup wrote:
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.
I'm wondering, though, if Dennis has any examples of software companies that have established a key escrow program. How do they publicize that fact, and how has it been structured?
I also wonder if subsequent purchasers of the company would continue to be bound by any untether escrow that MakeMusic might establish now. Once MakeMusic has turned over control of their software assets to another entity, that entity can simply abolish the escrow, since there is no contractual obligation between MakeMusic and anybody else to force MakeMusic to establish it in the first place.
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