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Can you imagine putting a modern JS/react/node/npm/webpack/bun/etc. based software in escrow like this? There is so much software rot in this ecosystem that in

• sramam 4y ago
  This was my first thought as well. I think the use-case for this is when the customer has not or is unwilling to upgrade from a "working version". Having the ability to take ownership of that "working version" for their business continuity reasons can be invaluable. Not sure how reliable this statistic[1] is, but a quick search yielded jQuery still has 11% of the market share. Interestingly, "websites added" > "websites dropped"!!! [1] https://www.slintel.com/tech/programming-framework/jquery-market-share https://www.slintel.com/tech/programming-framework/jquery-ma... PS: I have nothing but praise for jQuery and it's positive impact in the web world. However, given its age, seemed like a good example to illustrate the point.
• igrekel 4y ago
  Yes of course. An escrow is required for many contracts, especially for government subsidiaries. We have a SaaS service (a complex environment including a react front end) and still use an escrow service. A lot of it relies on docker images.
  • nivertech 4y ago
    Do you build this docker images by yourself, or they're pre-built/fetched from container registry? What about public npm packages?
• superjan 4y ago
  Maybe it is no longer safe to put in production but it would still be useful to start with something that works.