At an ISP, when I was much younger, at the coffee machine I asked the Technical Director why we didn't invest in some technical cleanup. He replied that any ava

At an ISP, when I was much younger, at the coffee machine I asked the Technical Director why we didn't invest in some technical cleanup. He replied that any available finances are much more profitably spent in advertising, which was directly correlated to sales, which were critical to survival. I guess that's why there are two sorts of companies: those that survived, and those with great code quality !