[OT] : Open Source from the user perspective (was Re: [EE]: opinion on Willem programmer?)

I would like to see intellectual property vendors required to escrow  
all the source and if the IP owners go down under ( ha ha ) , the  
source becomes available to users of the IP.  I don't want to see  
this as a law.... rather as a standard practice that buyers expect  
from vendors.  I have seen many wonderful products disappear when the  
vendor disappears and no one knows where the vendor or the IP got to.

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