
The Suppliers
Racing Against Time
“W00t, I got the gold RTM, two weeks pre-ship,” ^Evil
typed into the group channel. “It needs a license key to
install. Can someone look at it?”
“We have two weeks until others get a shot at it,” he
added.
Gold RTM and two weeks pre-ship. At first confused, I
suddenly realized what ^Evil meant: this was the final
product released to manufacturing, and it would be another
two weeks before it was shipped to the stores.
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