Oren Eini

aka Ayende Rahien

Oren Eini

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Feb 06 2009

Closing the XHEO saga
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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.

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Sciolist
06 Feb 2009
18:02 PM
Sciolist

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

Kristian Erbou
06 Feb 2009
18:12 PM
Kristian Erbou

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

Unnecessary
06 Feb 2009
18:21 PM
Unnecessary

Got bully?

Moving on...
06 Feb 2009
18:28 PM
Moving on...

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

m4bwav
06 Feb 2009
18:47 PM
m4bwav

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

dd
06 Feb 2009
18:51 PM
dd

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

Max Schmeling
06 Feb 2009
19:00 PM
Max Schmeling

He wrote his own.

Tuna Toksoz
06 Feb 2009
19:17 PM
Tuna Toksoz

Guess what: Rhino.Licensing

Aaron Erickson
06 Feb 2009
19:20 PM
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!

Ayende Rahien
06 Feb 2009
19:45 PM
Ayende Rahien

dd,

Rhino Licensing

dd
06 Feb 2009
19:49 PM
dd

@Ayedne

Rhino Licensing - is that available anywhere? :-)

Ayende Rahien
06 Feb 2009
20:56 PM
Ayende Rahien

rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/.../rhino-licen...

Mr_Obfuscation
07 Feb 2009
00:23 AM
Mr_Obfuscation

Paul Alexander you did the right thing.

csokun
07 Feb 2009
02:49 AM
csokun

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

Chris Marisic
09 Feb 2009
14:35 PM
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
10 Feb 2009
17:17 PM
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
15 Feb 2009
19:13 PM
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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