Borland Backs Down 224
Danborg writes: "Borland has backed down from its horrible Kylix/JBuilder license after all the bad press they received on Slashdot and Freshmeat. You may now all resume using Kylix and/or JBuilder. Seriously though, it's good to see a company respond to the voices of the online community, and admit it made a mistake. Good job Borland."
Only for companies ... (Score:3, Funny)
(Emphasis mine) So private customers do get the same EULA, with a different wording?
Re:Only for companies ... (Score:5, Funny)
Greek
(* Official language of the Republic of Legalia,
a small and not-very-well-known island just off
the coast of Marketania, where, incidentally, the
majority of the population speaks Bullshit.)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Also, the US gov't, in a move to improve their image on slashdot, decided to revoke all copyright law, examine patents more closely, and actually read the constitution.
Re:what a country... (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I was going to call it a Freudian slip.
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Re:Cookup or Malice (Score:1, Funny)
Ahem...Incompetence
Re:Check the web site license (Score:5, Funny)
LOL!
We should all contact them for written permission to view their website on a second computer.
"I read the licensing terms for your website while browsing on my computer at work. I would like to be able to access this information at home, so please send me written permission to do so. Thank you."
Kylix T-shirt (Score:3, Funny)
WOW... now i can start wearing my kylix/borland t-shirt again... I really liked it
Re:Lawyers... (Score:4, Funny)
And all the proofreaders accidentally skipped over reading it, too. Ridiculous, unless they employ cats for that too.
Second victory... (Score:2, Funny)
You're overlooking the greatest example of the above -- Borland changing it's name back to Borland from "Inprise".
Slashdotted website (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not the first time (Score:2, Funny)