[CLUE-Tech] Kylix 2.0 Professional

[Richard Knechtel]

Well, I for one sent Borland a nasty gram about this.
See below for the email I sent to them.

---- Email sent to Borland ----------

I just recently purchased Kylix, but as one who normally just clicks past 
the "license agreement" sections of software I buy and install, I was 
appalled to hear about this:
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/369/

I feel Borland needs to revoke and re-write their license agreement. I 
think I will be uninstalling Kylix and using some other development 
platform until they do.  I WILL be paying more close attention to license 
agreements. In fact, I will demand to see a copy of the agreement(s) prior 
to purchasing a product in the future!

I will be making my employer aware of this agreement, since we heavily use 
Borland products (Delphi 6 & JBuilder). I wonder if my employer will want 
to dump using Borlands products once they know about this!

I just hope Borland changes their "Gestapo" tactics on this license!

Sincerley,
Richard Knechtel

--- End of Email Sent to Borland ------------------------------------------

At 09:58 AM 1/13/02 -0700, you wrote:
>On Saturday 12 January 2002 04:35 pm, Jeremiah Stanley wrote:
> > Does any of this affect you guys and this software?
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/12/1832223&mode=thread
>
>I am not actually developing software with Kylix.  I did download it to test
>drive it.  Like most of us, I clicked 'accept' without reading the license.
>I guess from now on, I will read the license!
>
>The Kylix license is definitely onerous and I wonder if it would stand up to
>a court challenge.
>
>Interestingly, I saw an open letter from a Borland user on Freshmeat last
>night:
>
>http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/369/
>
>Jeff
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