I have had that comic tacked to my wall for twenty years. Back in the 1980's we thought we were special to get the "newest version".
Today I lag a ways behind.
I can remember having that same discussion with a COGO developer in the early 1980s about what I had found out in their DEMO disk they had sent.
His program almost ruined my AppleWriter program.
I do not believe the guy had ever learned to type.
He could not understand why I did not want to buy into his program that totally messed up how everyone that had ever taken a typing course felt when they had to learn new commands for keyboards and practically had to put a sticker on each key to know what it would do.
part of your drawing file is corrupt.
?ÿ
No doubt these comics come from real life experiences
25 years ago I discovered a problem in the software that my then employer's medium-sized business revolved around. It turned out to be an easy fix, a one- or two-line change in a shell script.
I was young and naive and wanted to be helpful, and I sent an email to the vendor's support address with the problem description, and my fix.
A few days later, I got a response to the effect, "Looks like you're right and that's probably a good fix. We can correct the problem in the next update if you pay $200 for filing the enhancement request, plus the engineering time billed in hourly increments".