Re:Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
by PeterisP on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:57AM
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Evaluating the business viability and solvency of any important suppliers is something that you should be doing yourself even if you have a years-long contract.
Also, such risks can be insured.
Also, such risks can be mitigated in various ways - I recall having a contract where the source code of any product version delivered to us would be held in escrow at a third party, and in case the supplier went out of business or a bunch of other conditions, we'd get their code and legal rights to use/modify/maintain it ourselves or through some contractor.
A contract is between you and some entity - if you want to protect yourself against that entity "dying", then that can be done by a contract with someone else (e.g. insurer, escrow, etc) who can make you whole even if that entity is dead.
Also, such risks can be insured.
Also, such risks can be mitigated in various ways - I recall having a contract where the source code of any product version delivered to us would be held in escrow at a third party, and in case the supplier went out of business or a bunch of other conditions, we'd get their code and legal rights to use/modify/maintain it ourselves or through some contractor.
A contract is between you and some entity - if you want to protect yourself against that entity "dying", then that can be done by a contract with someone else (e.g. insurer, escrow, etc) who can make you whole even if that entity is dead.