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US Sues Oracle Over Alleged Overcharging
CWmike writes "Oracle is being sued by the US government for allegedly overcharging it by millions of dollars, according to documents on file in US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The US General Services Administration's Schedules are supposed to provide discounts that are as good as or better than that given to the vendor's most favored customers, the complaint states. However, Oracle employee Paul Frascella, who joins the government's action, learned that Oracle was finding ways around the GSA restrictions in order to give commercial customers even deeper discounts, according to the complaints. In one alleged practice Oracle was said to be 'selling to a reseller at a deep discount ... and having the reseller sell the product to the end user at a price below the written maximum allowable discounts,' the complaint states. Overall, Oracle's actions cost US taxpayers 'tens of millions of dollars,' it adds."
you will only save money a few million at a time this way, but put a few of these kinds of efforts together and you will see a big change.
Yeah, we're going to see some real big change. How cute and naive. Any such purported "savings" will just be funneled to other pork projects. Come back to me when you see something like the government cutting back on something and saving 10 billion dollars.
Give credit where due, instead of whining about how it's not good enough. Here's a hint it'll never be good enough, so take what you can get.
I'm sorry, but I'm never going to jizz in my pants over a couple million dollars when the government is spending upwards of 5+ billion dollars a day.
where's my mod points when i need them? probably the most timely 'insightful' post i've ever read on /. in 6+ years
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The quote that you refute with "nonsense. Stop being stupid.": " More citizens have been killed by their OWN government, than by foreign invasion"
You're probably wrong here. Lysenkoism killed many, as did some failed Lysenko inspired farming practices under Mao, and Pol Pot killed many too. If you include poor civil management which could have been avoided given the science of the day that caused famine, plague and war, it's an easy case to make. Consider that citizens of captured countries usually are considered citizens of the vassal states and so have some claim to citizenship and it's a slam dunk.
This is off topic and I expect it to be moderated that way - but I didn't want you to to get away with calling BS on well documented history without at least a rebuttal. The US founding fathers knew that the greatest danger to the life, liberty and happiness of the people wasn't a foreign enemy: it was a government run amok. Read up.
The only thing worse than a despot that despises his people and kills them with tyranny and mismanagement is an educated and insightful democratic government that provides a great environment of freedom for the common man, but fails to provide for the common defense and so submits their people to the subjugation, rapine and pillaging of barbarians. See: ancient Greece.
As for my karma points, I'll get them back elsewhere in the thread educating people about Oracle's licensing practices. If you're moderating that's an easy bulletproof "off topic" mod so knock yourself out - I'll add some points to it so a few of you can have a whack.
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