How much do Easter Eggs cost companies in terms of time, money, and possible liability?
Again, this is hard to answer because it is internal to a company and there is no hard data. However, being programmers ourselves, we don’t think it is that much time or money. Programmers often work long, hard hours to put out a good product, and if one developer takes a couple of hours to whip up a simple Easter Egg to blow off a little steam, I don’t have a problem with that. And while some of the more elaborate Eggs seem very complex, they also come from very large teams (like 500 people). Probably a few guys spent a few evening coding it up in their spare time for kicks. Again, a relatively insignificant cost in the whole software development life cycle.
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