Comment by Afforess
5 years ago
An IBMer once explained to me that Lotus Notes was intentionally not improved; it was purposefully bad, a form of coordinated sabatoge. The bugs provided employees with an excuse for why troublesome directives or wasteful meetings were lost.
To this day, I still am unsure if they were joking.
Hah, that’s great. Maybe there’s still saboteurs inside still fighting the (good?) fight:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/