Not a single line of code
This one requires a bit of background. Many Mac users occasionally have need of Windows software. Since Microsoft won’t port Windows to the G3/G4/G5, they have two options: keep a PC around for such needs or use a PC emulator. Actually, they have a third option (chuck the Mac).
Anyway, the king of PC emulators for the Mac is (was) VirtualPC by Connectix. Recently, Microsoft bought Connectix. And killed the Mac version of VirtualPC. Whoops.
Enter FWB, a relatively obscure company that was working on “RealPC,” a PC emulator for the Mac that was supposed to be much faster than (slow) VirtualPC - in other words, just like a “real PC” (clever, eh?).
FWB just came in #6 on Wired magazines list of the top 10 vaporware products for 2003. (”Vaporware” is a term for products that are announced and then repeatedly delayed.)
In July, one Marko Kostyrko took over as CEO of FWB. Naturally, one of the first things he would want to check up on was the status of the RealPC project. He discovered that despite the fact that the company had told the media that RealPC “was in late beta and about to be released,” “not a single line of code has been written.” He then cancelled the (non-)project.