huh, does IBM permit you to buy source or CA ?????
Yeah I have strong feelings about this …seen the after effects and it aint pretty From: Mark Post Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 4:58 PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >>> 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
