Borland Backs Down

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 ...

[Rentar]

The new end user license agreement mistakenly contains language that is specific to enterprise volume customers.

(Emphasis mine) So private customers do get the same EULA, with a different wording?

Re:Only for companies ...

[Pogue Mahone]

Companies get Legalese*. Private customers get
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...

[Xenopax]

Microsoft decided that they were getting to much bad press from slashdot and now instead of stealing money, crushing companies, and controlling the government they are petting bunnies, saving orphans, and planting tree.

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...

[uradu]

> before someone else does and calls me a "lamer" or something...

Actually, I was going to call it a Freudian slip.

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Re:Cookup or Malice

[Anonymous Coward]

Never attribute to Malice what can be attributed to Incompitence

Ahem...Incompetence

Re:Check the web site license

[GypC]

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

[ankit]

You may now all resume using Kylix and/or JBuilder.

WOW... now i can start wearing my kylix/borland t-shirt again... I really liked it ;)

Re:Lawyers...

[nehril]

I don't buy the "industry standard boilerplate" line. what, did a lawyer one day accidentally type up the idea of invading homes to verify compliance, and accidentally spell checked it, then accidentally cut and pasted it into the license document? Perhaps a cat walked across the lawyer's keyboard and managed to bang out the "you shall have no legal recourse and waive all constitutional rights" paragraph. Perhaps they should invest in that cat-walking-on-keyboard-detection program I read about on /. a while back.

And all the proofreaders accidentally skipped over reading it, too. Ridiculous, unless they employ cats for that too.

Second victory...

[skia]

Seriously though, it's good to see a company respond to the voices of the online community, and admit it made a mistake.

You're overlooking the greatest example of the above -- Borland changing it's name back to Borland from "Inprise".

Slashdotted website

[totallygeek]

Most likely, Borland only revamped the license to quit the Slashdot effect on their web servers.

Re:Not the first time

[gazbo]

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man" - Jebediah Springfield