Re: Escrow Services for Source code

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leo,

I would recommend against it.  For starters, you have no control on the
vendor updateing the escroed source...  2nd and most important, when a
company goes into recievership, the assets go to the creditors...NOT to
the customers...so, you may never see your source!  (at least that's what
the lawyers told me a while ago when I was looking at this kinda
arrangement).  Now, you're in Canada and the laws may be different up
there....but here in the colonies, I kinda tend to stay away from this
kind of stuff.  It's just not in my best interest

Frankly, if this company is so unsure of themselves as to not want to send
the code, I'ld say you may want to look at another company....

How do you plan on making customizations?  You going to be held ransom to
them for ever?  THAT could be both expensive and risky!

See ya in a few weeks..

Don in DC


On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Leo Lefebvre wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Did anybody ever use escrow services for for their vendor source codes?
> 
> We're negociating changes to a software package we've bought and are are
> asking the (software) distributor about buying the source code along
> with the package.
> The distributor is also making custom modifications to the package to
> suit our needs. So, I guess, he prefers we use an escrow service to
> "store" all the source code and if the software developer goes bankrupt
> (or whatever) we would then have access to the code.
> I guess we should also take the distributor modified code to an escrow
> service.
> 
> Any thought about that?
> Any name to suggest? Any company to avoid?
> --
> 
> Leo Lefebvre
> leo@tug.on.ca
> Toronto Users Group for Midrange Systems
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