Re:Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
by tsimionescu on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:23PM
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> corruption requires costs you cannot verify after delivery.
No, that is plain fraud. Corruption is paying so that no one notices or cares about the the costs that can't be justified after delivery.
Re:Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
by 1oooqooq on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:09PM
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i guess your pedantry is right. it would be much more expensive to pay for corruption without the "safety" of some well executed fraud... but now it's open season and nobody even have to care about looking innocent anymore.
corruption requires costs you cannot verify after delivery. for construction it's the exagerated foundation which they only actually deliver what's needed and pocket the difference. for software it is the hundreds of rewrites that may or may not have happened and are now in the past.