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> They should have required that the software be placed in escrow for the life time of the scanner, so that other parties could do any needed updates, if the su
by thehardsphere 9y ago
> They should have required that the software be placed in escrow for the life time of the scanner, so that other parties could do any needed updates, if the supplier failed to do so.
People do that?
- BEN247 9y agoI've worked on software for large pharma companies and several of our customers required escrow agreements. In our case it was to protect against us going under rather than just not wanting to do updates any more.
- ethbro 9y agoIf you're big enough, you can negotiate any contract you want. And "if company ceases to maintain and release updates to product, we will receive the source code for our use" doesn't sound like too poison of a pill for Sales to push through.
- EwanToo 9y agoAll the time, particularly for either very big contracts, or where a large customer is buying from a small supplier who they consider too much of a risk without it