Paul: I appreciate and respect what you are doing. I hold everything
you do in high regard. I have worked with major companies over a 20
year span and my approach was a little different. I hold my source code
in escrow. I have the code on a DVD in a safe deposit box with
everything they need to contact one of you and have you pick up the
project and continue it. Including install codes. My CPA has all of
the instructions and contact information in the safe deposit box.
I have recently started sending out source code to my customers password
protected. Upon my demise they get the password and they have
everything they need.
Numerous people have the passwords.
Jeff
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On 07/10/2013 04:27 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
Sorry if this takes the discussion off the rails. But in the future...
When you select software, put a premium on owning the source code so that you
don't
get bogged down by these issues.
I wonder what companies are going to do when the cloud services they rely on
today go
belly up in a few years?
I've been providing the source to everything I've written since I went
independent in
2000, at no extra fee, because I feel it is just the right thing to do.
If it comes with a dongle, it better be damned good at what it does and there'd
better be recourse written in to the contract to take care of these future
situations.
I've noticed over the past 15 years that custom software has been trumped by
ho-hum
vertical-market applications that charge a premium for closed-source basic
accounting
software with industry-specific add ons. Customers get trapped because they
can't
move their data forward, they can't make custom enhancements without engaging
the
vendor (who may charge $10K for one report tweak), they get tired of paying the
subscriptions, and they ask me to evaluate making a custom replacement and then
I
fail to convince them after the sticker shock that long-term, it really is
worth it
to own the source code.
Pay now or pay later...
Paul
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