> or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around. We used to do that at ${BIGCORP} until the CTO moved us to an equipment leasing policy in place of buy-a

> or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around. We used to do that at ${BIGCORP} until the CTO moved us to an equipment leasing policy in place of buy-and-depreciate. Instead of being able to retain the old machines for testing they went back to the lessor every three or five years. It used to be that most devs had a couple of old PCs under their desks for hacking around on stuff, but that was no longer tolerated. The policy seemed like a minor financial tweak to the C-suits but was actually quite destructive to innovation.