In <[email protected]>, on 05/08/2014
at 05:50 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
>Many moons ago I wrote, as a contractor, a product for an
>application software company and they ended up losing the source
>code for the product (which they were selling as part of a very
>large application system). They were unable to fix it for Y2K and
>had to replace the whole product in their large application
>system. Why didn't I have source code?
Does it matter? Had you retained a copy, it would have quickly gotten
out of synchronization with their copy, as they made changes. Even had
they made no changes, there would still have been a risk that
something would happen to you. There is no substitute for good
backups.
Now, there are cases where a company gives a former employee source
updates for something he worked on, but that's rare, and still doesn't
help if something happens to the former employee.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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