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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: rms says...
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Date: 30 Jan 91 18:29:26 GMT
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In article <5501@bwdls58.UUCP> hwt@bwdlh490.BNR.CA (Henry Troup) writes:
>In article <4613@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay
>Maynard) writes:
>|>I do not provide source to my programs under any conditions. Further, none
>|>of my customers has ever asked about it.
>Really ? We always want at least a source escrow agreement.  If you refuse to
>offer that as part of your 'under any conditions', I pity your customers.

I would not object to a source escrow agreement. Nobody's asked about one of
those, either. Primarily, I do not wish my customers to use my source code
to compete with me.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Today is different from yesterday." -- State Department spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler, 17 Jan 91, explaining why they won't negotiate with Saddam Hussein