>I've seen some business systems that were....essentially the computer
>equivalent of this gun: "innovative" in their way, but a whole lot of
>"why?" and unnecessary nonsense to make sure it's not the standard way
>of doing it.

It reminds me a bit of the "gettin' around patents" phase of earlier firearms history, except that there was no earthly reason to do any of it that way by that point in time. :)

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