An interesting "reverse" variant of this. A long time ago I had a customer 
negotiate a contract that said that if we went out of business that they would 
get first refusal rights on hiring one particular developer of ours. 

Charles


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Tom Brennan
Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: Software vendor trying to force MSU based contract

Same here.  Instead of escrow or source code supplied to an end user, I think 
it would be far better for folks to consider someone else to take over should a 
product be left behind (for whatever reason).  For example, the code could be 
given or sold to Rocket/Dino/Serena/etc. and hopefully get some long-term 
support.

Charles Mills wrote:
> I am very negative on the benefits of escrow. 

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