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Re:Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during ... by mamon on Saturday March 07, 2020 @05:18PM (#22514607)
It seems reasonable at first: if you weren't able to spend all the money you've got that means you've got too much of them. But you're right, that does create the incentive to needlesly spend.

Also, it is not limited to gorvernment: a Director in a Fortune 100 company that I'm working for right now is buying 40 16" MacBook Pros for a team of .Net developers, because:

a) he had spare $100k in his budget.

b) it is easier to get VPN access approved for external contractors if they are using Macs

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Re:Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during ... by p_l on Saturday March 07, 2020 @08:49PM (#22515726)
Current client wrote-in a stupid policy into intermediate vendor's contract that I have to use a Mac.

Nothing, absolutely nothing that is used in the company is related to the Mac. In fact, a lot of the tools we use would work better on Windows, and many people use Windows. The Macs for direct employees are used as perks.

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