Company A buys a software license from Company B, a startup. Company A crosses its fingers that Company B doesn’t go bankrupt and disappear, along with the source code for Company A’s mission-critical ...

Commercial open source is often framed in the wrong way. On one side, you have people who treat open source as a moral commitment that becomes compromised the moment money enters the picture. On the ...

WASHINGTON — A think tank advocating the use of open source software in government has launched a source-code escrow program that would allow vendors to make money on proprietary software while ...

The federal government has been using technology escrow to safeguard their commercial off-the-shelf software for decades, but agencies appear hesitant to use this same protection for classified ...

In the past week I heard about two fairly large companies who are in a bit of a jam. Back in the days of the Internet Boom, they purchased an "E-commerce server" from one of two separate niche ...