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Spellabyte was setting up a software
company to compete with the mighty giants -
Microsoft and
Sun Microsystems.
Unfortunately,
unlike those corporations,
Prickly Spine
Software couldn't afford MBA's to do his marketing, and until he got his
venture capital money, he couldn't even afford programmers.
And
unlike Google - he
couldn't hire PhDs to write software either.
In the meantime he was
making do with retired hedgehogs. These old hedgehogs had very stiff prickly
spines and rolled around in paper tape, which was read by an old paper tape
reader, buffered to disk,
and then burned onto CD-ROM. The resulting software had a lot of interesting
features, but was a bit buggy. However, the labels would clearly indicate that
this was only version 1.0 and that customers who actually wanted to USE the
software could download the latest version from the web. By then, he hoped, he
would have enough money to recruit some retired spiders...
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