Ayende @ Rahien

Unnatural acts on source code

Closing the XHEO saga

I was just contacted by Paul Alexander from XHEO, telling me that he had refunded the money that I paid for their product.

That is all I wanted, and I am sorry that it had to reach this level of unpleasantness.

Thanks.

Comments

Sciolist
02/06/2009 06:02 PM by
Sciolist

Congratulations! I kinda wonder how it would've gone for someone without a popular blog as leverage.

Kristian Erbou
02/06/2009 06:12 PM by
Kristian Erbou

"It" didn't reach anything - whatever happened here only took place because you wanted it to, my friend ;o)

Moving on...
02/06/2009 06:28 PM by
Moving on...

The purse fight is over. We can now resume your regularly scheduled programming.

m4bwav
02/06/2009 06:47 PM by
m4bwav

Nice job persevering, blogs attract naysayers, and you did the right thing to ignore them.

dd
02/06/2009 06:51 PM by
dd

Just out of curiosity (and sorry if I missed it) what licensing component did you end up using instead? Thanks!

Tuna Toksoz
02/06/2009 07:17 PM by
Tuna Toksoz

Guess what: Rhino.Licensing

Aaron Erickson
02/06/2009 07:20 PM by
Aaron Erickson

So, not only did they not get to keep the revenue, but they may get a new competitor out of the deal?

Priceless!

dd
02/06/2009 07:49 PM by
dd

@Ayedne

Rhino Licensing - is that available anywhere? :-)

Mr_Obfuscation
02/07/2009 12:23 AM by
Mr_Obfuscation

Paul Alexander you did the right thing.

csokun
02/07/2009 02:49 AM by
csokun

Bravo, finally we all received a patched thanks to Paul Alexander.

Chris Marisic
02/09/2009 02:35 PM by
Chris Marisic

Out of all possible outcomes it is very ironic for them to not only lose business, lose face due to poor customer service (most likely costing further business) they now have a new FOSS (or atleast OSS depending on license with it) to compete against.

Scott
02/10/2009 05:17 PM by
Scott

I have ZERO idea why they wouldn't go through all that and then just do what they should have in the first place. I have never seen a company go as far as to trash a customer on their website. I think Paul Alexander was the bully type in school and he's upset he lost.

Mark Lindell
02/15/2009 07:13 PM by
Mark Lindell

Ayende's original post is now ranked #3 on google search of 'XHEO' right below two company links. No wonder they refunded!

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