Re: Source code (was: The Wilkes-Barre fiasco...)

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not only that, guys, but if the company does go into recievership, the
source code is considered an asset of the recievers and can be held up in
litigation for a heckuva long time....during which John Quser can't do
anything about the problems he's facing...



On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, James W. Kilgore wrote:

> Buck,
>
> It's widely believed to be a poor business decision because the business 
>making
> that decision can not hold the code for ransom or charge outrageous fees for
> trivial upgrades or have a third party take a peek at what a piece of cra* the
> system might actually be.
>
> Buck Calabro wrote:
> >
>
> > I work for a software vendor, and it's widely believed that giving the
> > source code to the customer is a poor business decision.  Our code is indeed
> > in escrow, as is the Cool:2E (Synon) model that it was generated from.
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