[radcon]

Sounds a lot like a software license with an expiration date.

I guess the main difference is that corporations have the leverage to force consumers (or employees) to accept their license terms no matter how lopsided they are, whereas the opposite is never true and so this surreptitious method was required.

[rtkwe]

If he included the timeout in his contract this wouldn't be a case and the comparison would be true. Instead what was happening was the 'logic bomb' would trigger and suddenly the sheet would be buggy, he would be called to fix the bug, change the trigger to a later date and charge the company saying he fixed it.