All the lawyers in the world cannot foretell with certainty what a court
will decide (under the suasions of other lawyers). That quite seriously is
the fundamental problem with escrow. 

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 10:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Vendor Source Code

In
<CAAJSdji19mcCvm3o54ELWC0Ny9PNvGBWfH6i816b3yu+nmed=a...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 05/09/2014
   at 06:35 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said:

>This has been an interesting thread. I rather like the escrow idea.

I like it, but only if both sides have had bankruptcy lawyers verify that
the source code *will* be provided in a timely fashion when the agreement
calls for it and that it will *not* be provided to a third party as the
result of court action, e.g., if the escrow agent goes bankrupt.

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