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Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain

Posted by kdawson on from the end-of-a-reign dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Spain's FBI equivalent has arrested the management of a software company (Google translation; Spanish original) for selling custom software to small and medium-sized businesses with 'controlled errors' that resulted in the software bombing on a predetermined date. They would then charge for fixing the problem and press the client into buying a maintenance contract. More than 1,000 clients were affected."

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  1. Microsoft by Dexter+Herbivore · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sooo, they were following the Micro$oft business model then?

    1. Re:Microsoft by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mod parent up! Epic slam at the '$oft, brah.

    2. Re:Microsoft by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 2, Funny

      Those who did not learn from the history of Windows 3.0 are doomed to repeat it.

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  2. Re:Shenanigans! by Jade+E.+2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    how about this one, does it contain bugs?

    10 PRINT "Meshach is never wrong!";
    20 GOTO 10;

    Yes, BASIC doesn't use semicolons at the end of lines.

  3. Meanwhile, back on the ranch by zennyboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I live here in Spain and this doesn't surprise me. Meanwhile, back on the ranch, I'm surprised someone managed to program something so reliable they had to code in a time-bomb to make the software fail!

    Spanish coders did that!

    I'm proud :-)

    (English ex-pat)

  4. Re:Shenanigans! by icebraining · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice post!

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  5. Re:Shenanigans! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then there is Toyota - their cars are randomly programmed *not* to stop at random intervals.

    [rimshot]

    fun captcha = Kicked

  6. Re:Shenanigans! by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    10 PRINT "Meshach is never wrong!";

    20 GOTO 10;

    I'd count an infinite loop as a bug...

    All of my microcontroller programs have infinite loops.

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  7. Re:Yet another argument for Open Source. B-) by nacturation · · Score: 2, Funny

    How often does anything that looks like an obfuscated C contest entry actually get committed to a repository ?

    Check out any project on SourceForge that is written in Perl. :)

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  8. How dare you, my mother is a saint! by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder which programmer should be more worried, the one who can't read the above, or the one who can.

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