Embraer have been taking mugging lessons from the thieves at Boeing. When you buy an aircraft, it comes with a whole bunch of limitations which can be removed with cash. No modifications, just an update to your AOM. We now have a limit of -70˚C, but we bought another five to get this temperature reduction. So it sounds like the "Flyers" were not only paying attention to the SAT but also to their aircraft limitations. Good guys.
And just remember chaps. Whenever an aircraft manufacturers employee visits, charge him for the air he breathes, carpet wear, chair rental, the water he uses, the coffee he drinks and paper used in the toilet - plus seat rental, flush usage, door lock wear, hinge usage - just like they do to you.
But the classic highwaymen have got to be IBM. In the good old days, they never sold anything. They only ever leased. And that included the bugs in their OS - which you paid them to fix! The greatest degree of theft I ever heard about was when Willis Faber had to lease the colour "green" from IBM. They only ever leased blue computers but Mr Foster spec.ed green computers in their Ipswich HQ. Second to that was a disc pack upgrade in our company. An engineer would remove two jumper from a circuit board, bang in a code and voila - four times more capacity and an times eight speed improvement on an 18 month old disk pack. The performance was present already, but corporate greed decreed...