On Dec 29, 2004, at 12:01 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> From:    "Virginia A. Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Another problem for records managers to deal with
>
>
> It is not a question of software license, but of source code.  The
> software
> license lets you use the software within certain restrictions (number
> of users,
> installs, etc.).  Most software companies are not going to release
> their source
> code to a customer.  What more organizations need to do is insist on
> the source
> code being placed in escrow in their name, so if the software company
> goes away
> or drops the software, they have access to the code at least long
> enough for an
> orderly migration to another product.

There are two attorneys in Chicago that specialize in this type of
service at IG2DATA.
I heard several horror stories at a meeting at PRISM about the failure
to control your
own source code if the company who developed it goes out of business or
stops supporting it.

Hugh Smith
FIRELOCK Fireproof Modular Vaults
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