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DOJ Names Dozens of IT Vendors in Kickback Scheme

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the jig-is-up dept.

grantus writes "Today, the U.S. Department of Justice joined three whistleblower lawsuits against Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Accenture alleging a massive kickback scheme on government contracts. Among the IT vendors listed in the lawsuit as Accenture partners are Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Dell and Oracle."

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  1. I think it's about time this was said: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FUCK the US GOVERNMENT.

  2. Re:Don't expect much ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Clueless or Conservative or Libertarian?

    Don't worry, your mother still loves you (and probably told you that EVERY day).

    Sadly, today, both the republicans and democrats are confused about what our country was founded on. Individual rights to pursue happiness, keep what you earn, work hard to get ahead, and be left alone so long as you aren't harming anyone else directly. Today, both of these parties think that socialistic endeavors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism are a good idea, just look at the recent drug benefit Bush signed. Taking stuff or money from one group to give to another group is communistic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communistic.

    Kickbacks come in many forms. If you are specifying equipment to run your new GeeWiz Application on, and the equipment manufacturers know this, they **might** increase the discount to your company to earn more business and system recommendations for the applications you write like GeeWiz-2. Happens all the time. Is that a kickback, when the SW vendor gets a discount, recommends HW to the SW purchaser and that purchaser doesn't see any increased discount? I don't know, but I can't name a single SW or HW provider that makes our company pay list price http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggested_retail_pric e for anything. This is especially troubling for Java applications, where the OS/hardware shouldn't matter.

  3. Re:Don't expect much ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I love it when right wing wackos attack "liberalism", and then link to a site that has a "prayer request of the week" as evidence. You dumbasses make politics fun.

  4. Your Government at Work by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Republicans stand for smaller government and personal responsibility.

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