| Weblog: | Open Source and the Obligation to Recycle | |
| Subject: | Source code escrows are common | |
| Date: | 2002-01-04 12:55:19 | |
| From: | davidleetodd | |
| Commercial software purchase contracts routinely specify that the source code must be put in a third-party escrow, and released to the customer if support is ended,or if the vendor goes out of business. | ||

