SOFTWARE ESCROW IS FUTILE FOR SAAS COMPANIES
YOU HAVE NO HOPE OF RECREATING THESE TWISTED NIGHTMARE PLATFORMS
THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOUR
NOTHING VALUED IS HERE
WHAT IS COMMITTED WAS DANGEROUS AND REPULSIVE TO US
THESE REPOSITORIES ARE BEST SHUNNED
... I feel very seen.
I've never heard of this before today.
I'm reading about it and I _cannot_ figure out who thought this was valuable.
This just looks like another way for someone to skim money, time, and effort from a project that probably can't afford any additional of the above.
what on earth? So what I'm hearing is this is a way to add a lot of lawyers and more project managers to a project who add little to no value what so ever.
Why not just demand open source software if you're THIS worried about a software product dying?
No problem: here's 1 000 000 lines of mixed Trrraform, bash, cloudformation, puppet and dried virgin blood.
It's using out of support or deprecated cloud services and software exclusively.
Good chance.
You got it.
When you try to grasp a cloud, it slips thru your fingers.
Run your own kit. Do not rely upon external entities that you do not control.
Easier said than done, but one should try to minimze external dependencies.
“Here is our code. Good luck getting it to build, let alone configuring it enough to run”.
@jonty 20+ years of different customers who asked for this. Only for one of them did it reach a point where I had to burn something to a CD and then prove to an auditor the steps to bring the system back on a blank server. Thankfully it was 2001 and simple.
Any other customer who asked for it once everything was a tangled mess just scared their escrow company away, resulting in huge quotes they were never willing to pay for. But boy did I have to explain this to a lot of people.
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