Source Code Escrows for the Small Developer

Fidex Americas Corporation announces a source code escrow service targeted
to meet the needs of independent software developers and their clients.
Now there's an answer when a potential client asks "What happens to me if
the programmer who wrote my custom software gets hit by a truck?"

More than half the software companies in the U.S. employ three people or
less. These small developers offer unsurpassed expertise, responsiveness,
and pricing. At the same time, though, a single accident can put a company
like this out of business. So a potential client may hesitate to entrust
their crucial project to a small developer.

The crux of the problem is that, according to U.S. Copyright Law, a custom
software program is the property of the software developer who wrote it,
not the client who paid to have it written. The software developer retains
exclusive possession of the source code files used to create the software,
and gives their client only the executable program that actually runs on
the computer. Without access to the source code, the software created from
it cannot be modified.

If a custom program needs to be updated and the developer who wrote the
software is out of business, what can the user do? The new Software
Security Service from Fidex Americas Corporation gives the software
developer a way to alleviate their client's legitimate concern.

The concept is simple: in order to guarantee that their client's custom
software will be maintained for as long as they need it--in other words,
to guarantee that their client's investment in custom software does not
become worthless--the software developer deposits a copy of the source
code with Fidex Americas Corporation.

The source code is accompanied by a written agreement between the developer
and client detailing the events that trigger release of the source code to
the client. The deposit materials are stored by Fidex Americas in a
climate controlled subterranean vault, while both the software developer
and their client rest easy.

Fidex Americas Corp
821 Fir St, Sandpoint, ID 83864
208-263-5348,  800-569-7569,  fax 208-265-4191

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