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From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
Date: 26 Feb 2004 10:16:55 +0100
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> > Personally, I prefer the traditional economic model for software
> 
> My company is in the middle of trying to purchase the source code
> for an application we use heavily. The application uses a GUI library
> from a vendor who is no longer in business, and the company which owns
> the application doesn't have the source for the GUI library. We are
> trying to find out who does own the library - we think it's some
> compnay in Brazil, but we haven't been able to contact them yet.
> 
> Not having the source for this application has cost us man years of
> wasted effort, and now it looks like the "traditional economic model
> for software" may doom our attempts to get the source altogether.

Good point. One solution to that problem is to require that the vendor
places the source code in escrow, in case he goes belly up. Telcordia
had that in their contract with us (before we were bougt out by Sun).
Probably not realistic unless you are a big customer, though.

-- 
   C++: The power, elegance and simplicity of a hand grenade.