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Re:Why did Borland fail? by dwc on Saturday June 13, 2015 @08:07PM (#9713258)
Not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about, but waaay back they did a license change for their language products that said something along the lines of anything produced with their compilers belonged to them. There was a huge outcry and pretty much right away they said "oops! our lawyers got a bit happy" and fixed it. I don't recall exactly when that was. Their Pascal was "Borland Pascal" at the time. I think that was an honest mistake, as I doubt anyone there at the time would have thought they'd get away with that.
Re:Why did Borland fail? by pjmlp on Sunday June 14, 2015 @03:10AM (#9714023)
Around 1991 timeframe, if I recall correctly.

Basically the EULA forbade the use of Borland C++ to write compilers.