somebody wrote:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote
> 
>> Some programs are, in fact, designed to solve a specific problem.
>>
>> Other programs are instead designed to make money.
> 
> Well, that also is a specific problem.

I was waiting for somebody to point that out.

[You see what I did there?]

Reminds me of the expensive IBM line printer. Apparently, for an 
exorbitant fee, IBM could sent a field engineer to perform an "upgrade" 
to your printer that makes it print at double speed. This upgrade 
consists of removing one drive wheel and installing another with twice 
the diameter.

It's an engineering solution - once you realise that the goal is "suck 
every last penny out of the customer".

[Obviously, all this was back in the Dark Ages of giant mainframe 
computers that filled entire warehouses...]

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