I agree with John Gilmore. Once the paranoia starts, it never ends. Having an updated copy of source or a copy that matches the version in use at your site with compiling/assembly instructions and some basic architecture sure beats the heck out of nothing.
Big companies, such as IBM, typically drop support and many sites end up with nothing.... Duffy Nightingale -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 7:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Vendor Source Code Radoslaw Skorupka is right to emphasize that an escrow agreement is not a panacea. Such an agreement may be all but useless, but an able lawyer who understands the software-development process can write one that is useful in extremis. Moreover, the availability of such agreements sometimes makes it possible for initially small, startup ISVs to sell their new products to organizations that would otherwise be wary of buying them. They can certainly be problematic; but it is possible, even easy, to make long lists of potential inadequacies for just about any undertaking. (There are even some boilerplate lists of this sort available.) John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
