On 2/6/06, Martin Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > While you weren't looking, corporate attitudes to Easter Eggs (read > "unspecified software") changed. Purchasers of commercial software > started asking "why are we paying for features which are (a) not > documented, (b) not wanted, and (c) contribute to software bloat?". I > worked in information security for a corporate which asked exactly those > questions of Microsoft... and eventually, Microsoft stopped doing Easter > eggs! >
They stopped doing Easter Eggs because a court demanded they stop, not because the customers didn't want them. One customer didn't want them, and sued to have them removed. And even despite this court case, there have been a few EE left in MS Office 2003 (do a google search to find them). It's not about "Corporate addititues" it's about one corporate type suing a company with deep pockets. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
