Dear developers and other readers (megous, jmilloy, thaumaturgy), This is probably not a real email to a client or meant to sound like one. Stop responding to

Dear developers and other readers (megous, jmilloy, thaumaturgy), This is probably not a real email to a client or meant to sound like one. Stop responding to it like that's what this is (and perhaps also, remember that satire and social criticism exist). It IS meant to highlight one of the common problems of software development for interested readers.