[ryandrake]

Yup, and the requesting "customer" always convinces your CEO with the same argument: "Just add this feature, sell it to us, then it's part of your product forever and you can sell it to many other customers! We're paying for your NRE!" and CEO falls for it!

[macjohnmcc]

The company I worked for didn't even need that incentive just the potential to make a sale! We added features just to complete bullet points on a marketing sheet even if we never made a sale of the feature.