non-paying clients
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this isn't mine...but it's the best story i've heard.
one of the developers i've worked with wrote a custom application for a corporation one time. when they refused to pay him after like 2 months, he wrote a "patch" for their application - he mailed them the cdrom telling them it was a bug fix...
yea, it was, it termintated the operation of the application after 5 days. the message they got was, operation rights revoked until paid in full.
this was a system critical application - financial syatems for their progress database and symix systems.
the amount of money they probably lost during the few days without that application must have been huge.
they tried to take legal action, but since the contract wasn't met, they didn't have any grounds.
they paid in full and then he charged them to remove the patch.