It’s the McDonald’s ice cream machine fiasco all over again.
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Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoIt’s easy to create artificial maintenance costs there as needed.
That reminds me of the bricked polish trains, not only did they create artificial maintenance cost, they also tried to ensure that only they would be able to do that maintenance (unflipping the kill-switch)
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In that particular case it was plain sabotage, I’ve read that article. They also denied knowledge of that kill-switch.
I meant cases where both the vendor and the buyer know how these are formed, but due to kickbacks are fine with it.