Bribes and bungs are a lot more common in other countries.
Microsoft 'cooperates' with wide US cash-for-contracts bribery probe
Microsoft says it will cooperate with US investigators probing alleged bribery of foreign officials. It's claimed Redmond's resellers bunged cash to apparatchiks in Russia and Pakistan in return for contracts with state-backed businesses. The software giant's deputy general counsel John Frank blogged here that his company …
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 18:48 GMT eulampios
What about the United States of America?
Only here, its been renamed from bribery to effective incentives. A the end of the day, an official or a person responsible for purchasing software can always resort to " I'm dumb, ignorant, illiterate, can't count and I dint know it was not as good for us" argument.
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 17:43 GMT Steve Davies 3
SOP in many places
No matter what the not so lillywhite US Gov says or passes laws on, factoring in bribes into contract prices is SOP in many places in the world. If you don't, bang goes your margin because you have to pay the bribe anyway and you end up making a loss on the deal.
Door, Stable and a Horse just about to dissapear over the horizon then?