[snoopsnopp]

I don’t mean to be the morality police, but that seems illegal.

[brightball]

It was an internal tool and the VP was the head of IT. Everything still worked, it was just painful to use. He could have pulled the plug on it at any time.

[epolanski]

I don't think any of those details matter, that's still illegal and you could've gotten in trouble legally.

[bobnamob]

The operative word is “internal” in OPs post.

Incentives and adoption goals for internal tools are weird at large corps. Intentional suckage is just another tool to drive migration

[fbdab103]

Even if it were an external tool, I fail to understand how there would be a legal problem. Companies use all sorts of shenanigans to encourage users to migrate. Immoral? Sure, but software crossed that bridge a long time ago.

Heaps of people online have stories about how Microsoft tricked them into upgrading Windows.

[burnte]

What laws do you think making a bad tool violates?

[gosub100]

but you can't seem to name which crime.

[ajcp]

morality <> legality