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People in big companies hire external services so that the contractor is culpable when things go wrong and they can’t be personally blamed. Most of the cost and
by _yb2s 2y ago
People in big companies hire external services so that the contractor is culpable when things go wrong and they can’t be personally blamed. Most of the cost and value to them has nothing to do with the actual work. Nobody has ever been fired for trusting IBM. The same reason companies will pay big money for a commercial Linux distribution even if there is a free one that is better.
- steve1977 2y ago> The same reason companies will pay big money for a commercial Linux distribution To companies like… IBM!
- _yb2s 2y agoHaha, I was thinking about RedHat when I wrote that, not even realizing they were owned by IBM.
- ewzimm 2y agoMost of the time, this isn't even the executive's choice but a requirement of their corporate liability insurance. It would be nice if we could just find responsible executives to fix these types of issues, but they're systemic.