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

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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