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This made me chuckle: > Then someone had a brilliant idea: we would ship US Sprint a blank tape with our usual letter listing the changes in the release. ...p
by gnfargbl 4y ago
This made me chuckle:
> Then someone had a brilliant idea: we would ship US Sprint a blank tape with our usual letter listing the changes in the release.
...preceded by...
> Our relationship with US Sprint was always iffy, and one day we pissed them off one time too many and they canceled their contract
Well, yeah. If your company depends on a small number of large customers, you really can't get away with pulling nonsense like the blank tape trick on them. People aren't idiots.
- wging 4y agoThat Monday deadline seems to me like they were searching for an excuse to end the relationship.
- fmntf 4y agoThis old trick is still in use nowadays. However, instead of shipping a tape I have seen a colleague uploading a zip corrupted by hand, just two gain a couple of days of bug fixing.