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

I have heard of this being done in individual cases under NDA and
other such agreements. The entire IP would revert to the user party to
the agreement if the original IP owner went out of business.

Sean

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Cedric Chang <cc <at> nope9.com> wrote:
> 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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