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> with a contractual minimum duration you promise to keep the service up, and significant monetary penalties if you fail to meet it.

Take it down a few notches, you're solution will likely not work.

This is the company's only product. If the product gets discontinued, the company is likely broke. The "significant monetary penalties" is unenforceable because the company will not have any money to fulfill the SLA penalty.



>If the product gets discontinued, the company is likely broke

Or has just been acquired, which I think is more what the parent was getting at.

>The "significant monetary penalties" is unenforceable because the company will not have any money to fulfill the SLA penalty.

The acquirer would, though!


It's a good hedge against an acquisition though. Presumably you could structure the SLA such that any acquirer would be on the hook.




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