Corruption Abroad
(in which Rat forgets to add subtitle)
Good time of day, humans!
We’re catching up on reading the news…
Fact check: many such cases, with SAP being just one of the latest: [BBC] Software firm SAP to pay $220m over bribery charges
CWCID: line of thought appropriated from Rod Krause @Xitter.
Interesting. SAP is a dominant vendor within big pharma. So big that people try to use them without auditing their software development processes first. Regulators recently had a rather pointed comment about how “widespread use does not imply that software is fit for purpose”.
Lots of barriers to entry for regulated industries that leads to lots of incentives to go around the regulations.
Bribery is considerably more honest than the vacuous procedural flummery and grotesque sanctimony of the government.