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Re:Obama administration to end contract with company behind ... by elicash on Friday January 10, 2014 @03:06PM (#7039020)
The INTENT is to limit corruption. If they could give contracts to anybody they want, then they could reward donors.

I think it's actually achieved that goal. It comes at the expense of competence, however, as those with the best lawyers (not best developers) win contracts.

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Re:Obama administration to end contract with company behind ... by vonmoltke on Friday January 10, 2014 @03:26PM (#7039131)
Except it hasn't. The current system has turned what is left of the pool of potential bidders into key donors.
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Re:Obama administration to end contract with company behind ... by shawkinaw on Friday January 10, 2014 @03:30PM (#7039153)
So we have a choice between corruption and incompetence ... I'm pretty sure that corruption would actually be better, at least shit would work.
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Re:Obama administration to end contract with company behind ... by thebulge on Friday January 10, 2014 @04:51PM (#7039746)
We only have a choice of which we want to start with. Eventually we end up with both.
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