Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Borland Backs Down

Posted by timothy on from the oh-ok-you're-only-entering-my-business dept.

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."

2 of 224 comments (clear)

  1. industry standard boilerplate by wiredog · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    That's the problem. Everyone has licenses like that. It's "industry standard boilerplate". Oh well, as long as we continue to pay close attention we can force some companies to be reasonable. Others, however, are not so susceptible to pressure.

    --

    Best Slashdot Co
  2. Re:Why assume maliciousness? by pmorey65 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I actually posted this story to /. last night, but I see they didn't like my presenting it as a mistake and would rather post it as "Borland backs down". I guess no one at /. ever makes mistakes.