Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Oct 2009 14:47 UTC
Let's do a little trip down memory lane. We're talking the '80s, early '90s, and we're looking at a company called Borland, which produced several well-known and popular products related to software development. Back in those days, Borland had an end user license agreement. However, contrary to the EULAs we know and despise today, Borland's 'No-Nonsense License Statement' was a whole lot simpler, and in fact, is a perfect example of how software should be treated.
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...that is until their entire dev team up and left to join Microsoft. I still think the OWL libraries were the best abstraction of the win32 API I ever came across. Why they had to favor Delphi and as a consequence that abortion of a C++ builder I will never understand.
A few years ago, Borland (or what was left of the original Borland) decided to concentrate on development lifecycle tools instead of compilers, and faded gently into obscurity.
Whilst in their ascension, (imho) they produced the best compilers yet produced on this planet.
I am complete agreement about their license.