[ultramundane8]

My post was a little more geared towards disputing that the work relationship is doomed if the customer and developer can't trust each other.

I had no intention of endorsing a time bomb approach, but just continued on that theme theoretically.

I thought I had expressed that through the sequence of my statements (assuming a possible case then showing that it is at odds with the trust assertion), but will try to be clearer in the future.

I definitely think there are some good replies to the actual practice of installing a time bomb, especially from pragmatism.