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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by macintux on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:49PM (#23261968)
Which would still face the same problem: the government would rather pay multiple times for crappy software at a lower price than one big bill for quality software the first time.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by jimbokun on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:06PM (#23264316)
Or you can pay one big bill and still get crappy software.

It's difficult to evaluate the quality of software development contractors.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by ashtonkem on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:58PM (#23262148)
That's not a problem unique to governments, although the consequences in that realm tend to be worse.
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