Thanks Mark, makes sense. Dean
Sent from my iPhone On May 8, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 5/8/2014 at 04:18 PM, Dno <[email protected]> wrote: >> We're looking to purchase a sw product and our lawyers are looking at the >> t's >> and c's to see if we can have the right to their source code. At my previous >> job we did this for BMC, we kept it at IMAR. I guess I never understand why, >> so I'm asking if anyone our there does this and for what reason. If the >> company went out of business what would the source code do for us? Would we >> give it to another third party to maintain for us? I appreciate the feedback. > > Most companies do this for products that are supporting business critical > functions. If that's not going to be the case here, then there's no real > need for escrowing the source. > > If it is the case, then you would have ability to keep your business critical > function running. As we're all aware "stuff happens" at the worst time, say > during a CPU upgrade. You could either maintain the code yourself or paying > someone else to do it. If nothing else, it could buy you time to migrate off > the product gracefully. > > One of the benefits of working for an Open Source company is that we don't > have to worry about contract terms like that and neither do our customers. :) > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
