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Code disclosure if company goes bankrupt triggers a counter-incentive: Your customers has a stake in you going bankrupt.
by laurent92 5y ago
Code disclosure if company goes bankrupt triggers a counter-incentive: Your customers has a stake in you going bankrupt.
- mattigames 5y agoIn that line of logic your competition has a new incentive for you to NOT go bankrupt (perhaps buy your company before that happens?)
- dTal 5y agoWhy would your customers want you to stop maintaining the software they use and have already paid for?
- hermitdev 5y agoIf you're of sufficient size that you are a risk to a company's bottom line, I've got news for you: they probably already have a stake in you going bankrupt. Companies buy insurance against their business partners going bankrupt all the time. One such means is called a credit default swap (CDS).
- jka 5y ago...if your customers believe that maintaining your code can be done more cost-effectively than the rates you're currently charging them. (and note that cost-effectiveness != cost -- they're correlated, but not the same)