Failed Startup code graveyard
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Failed Startup code graveyard
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#3Site's not loading very well for me.
I definitely like the idea of preserving the source code of abandoned projects though. Ultimately, I'd like some equivalent of the "legal deposit" principle that applies to books and other printed works - some kind of scheme where source code, not just object code, for proprietary products eventually makes its way into the public domain. I'm not sure how this scheme would work, but I'd like it to happen.
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#4Site's not loading very well for me. I definitely like the idea of preserving the source code of abandoned projects though. Ultimately, I'd like some equivalent of the "legal deposit" principle that applies to books and other printed works - some kind of scheme where source code, not just object code, for proprietary products eventually makes its way into the public domain. I'm not sure how this scheme would work, bu…
I worked for a company where one of the clients required that all the source code be periodically archived and shipped to them so that if we went out of business they could potentially run it themselves. Practically, they wouldn't be able to because of the sheer complexity of all the different services. It was a minor pain to do this for them but the contract was worth it.
Having said that, I am a big fan of open sourcing projects of they fail. Why not? What do you have to lose?
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#6Site's not loading very well for me. I definitely like the idea of preserving the source code of abandoned projects though. Ultimately, I'd like some equivalent of the "legal deposit" principle that applies to books and other printed works - some kind of scheme where source code, not just object code, for proprietary products eventually makes its way into the public domain. I'm not sure how this scheme would work, bu…
Could be part of an escrow contract - e.g. if the company goes out of business, after x years, the escrow agent will release the code into the public domain.
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#7It's a great idea. I can't wait for someone to build one.
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#8Site's not loading very well for me. I definitely like the idea of preserving the source code of abandoned projects though. Ultimately, I'd like some equivalent of the "legal deposit" principle that applies to books and other printed works - some kind of scheme where source code, not just object code, for proprietary products eventually makes its way into the public domain. I'm not sure how this scheme would work, bu…
Could be part of an escrow contract - e.g. if the company goes out of business, after x years, the escrow agent will release the code into the public domain.
I've been through this a few times as both the vendor and the client. There are normally a bunch of conditions that can trigger a release of the the source code to the client. These _could_ include business failure but also non-performance or acquisition.
I've never come across one where escrow agent will release source to the Public Domain but I guess it could happen.
Companies like Iron Mountain have escrow services for clients of SaaS providers. I think in these cases data escrow is significantly more important than source code escrow.
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#9Site's not loading very well for me. I definitely like the idea of preserving the source code of abandoned projects though. Ultimately, I'd like some equivalent of the "legal deposit" principle that applies to books and other printed works - some kind of scheme where source code, not just object code, for proprietary products eventually makes its way into the public domain. I'm not sure how this scheme would work, bu…
I worked for a company where one of the clients required that all the source code be periodically archived and shipped to them so that if we went out of business they could potentially run it themselves. Practically, they wouldn't be able to because of the sheer complexity of all the different services. It was a minor pain to do this for them but the contract was worth it. Having said that, I am a big fan of open sou…
Because most of the time it's useless to open source projects that don't compile and run. Though perhaps I am sure there might be someone who might care enough and move in and make it run. I think something like that happened with Tesseract, Google stepped in to make something than was not running, viable.
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#10Site's not loading very well for me. I definitely like the idea of preserving the source code of abandoned projects though. Ultimately, I'd like some equivalent of the "legal deposit" principle that applies to books and other printed works - some kind of scheme where source code, not just object code, for proprietary products eventually makes its way into the public domain. I'm not sure how this scheme would work, bu…
I worked for a company where one of the clients required that all the source code be periodically archived and shipped to them so that if we went out of business they could potentially run it themselves. Practically, they wouldn't be able to because of the sheer complexity of all the different services. It was a minor pain to do this for them but the contract was worth it. Having said that, I am a big fan of open sou…
I was involved in a project which had some potential to become a startup, but for various reasons we decided against going into business - we ended up GPLing the proof-of-concept application we'd been working on and put it up on GitHub: https://github.com/tsujamin/digi-approval