Comic Transcript
CUSTOMER: So what’s the catch?
ALEX: What catch? There’s no catch. Ubersoft is committed to providing an operating system that enhances the experience of developers who wish to fully utilize the power of “The Cloud.”
CUSTOMER: Aha! That’s the catch!
ALEX: Pardon?
CUSTOMER: “Enhances the experience.” That’s the catch.
ALEX: I don’t see how —
CUSTOMER: Any time you guys say “enhance” you really mean “change in a way that makes it impossible for anyone other than us to do anything with it.”
ALEX: Well, Ubersoft is a visionary company, and it’s not unusual for us to propose radically innovative —
CUSTOMER: Aha!
ALEX: What now?
CUSTOMER: Any time you guys say “radically innovative” you really mean “we have patents nobody else is allowed to use and a lawyer who has way too much time on his hands.”
