"Bulba!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:08:01 -0500, Steve Holden > >>whereas when a company goes >>bust there's no guarantee the software IP will ever be extricated from >>the resulting mess. > > There is a good _chance_ here: money. Somebody has poured a lot > of money into this thing. It's not going to get dropped bc of that.
>From what I have read, the amount of proprietary code which *did* get effectively shredded after the dot-com bust is enough to make one cry. There were a few companies that would buy code at bankruptcy sales for maybe 1% of its development cost, but even then, with the original programmers long gone, it could be hard to make anything from it. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
