On 2017-03-05, at 17:38, Knutson, Samuel wrote: > Most vendor products that provide meaningful value also are internally quite > large and complex. Very few if any sites that inherited a source escrow from > a vendor which goes out of business or sunsets a technology can support those > products. Sometimes the products themselves include technology built using > protected IP from IBM, or other vendors that is protected by non-disclosure > arrangements. > Shouldn't a realistic DR test exercise recovery from escrow?
> Consider that source escrow does not automatically imply the ability for a > company that received an escrow to further disclose or share that IP with > others (the community). You mostly likely cannot just take an escrow tape > and upload it to GitHub. > Does the escrow agent retain the IP rights? If not, then who? Could multiple end customers get exclusive rights to the IP? That's an oxymoron. > The product might today be something you like but the firm is mostly > likely going to be better served by locating a replacement than by trying to > nurse along Abandonware. Source escrow just isn't worth the trouble for most > systems infrastructure products. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
