[Sussex] Breaking Patent News

[Mark Harrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffrey Teale" <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:55 PM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Breaking Patent News


> We're starting to find that customers are demanding that when they sign
> a contract with a software house they get the source and the right to
> modify if only as insurance against their suppliers business failing.

We're facing similar issues.

In our case, however, we've put the source into Escrow, with a commitment to
release to customers if:

- we go out of business
- we stop supporting the product(s) in question

Mark