Internationalization, REDEFINED!

This once-mighty IT company has fallen on hard times, and by the mid-1990s it has been bought and sold many times, says a pilot fish working there.

How many? "I was sitting at the same desk, with the same phone number, doing essentially the same work, for ten years," fish says, "and I had five business cards from that time, with four different company names -- they recycled one.

"Our products were embedded systems, that rare form of software where the vendor pays for fixes to bugs. Usually all the user-facing text was internationalized. But I mostly did diagnostics and configuration, which would only be seen by techs, so the text was English only.

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