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IT industry prepares for failure by blaming the customer in advance

According to The Register, UK’s High Tech Industry are preparing themselves for another spectacular failure to deliver a government project – this time it is ID cards and the excuses are being made before the project has started.

It seems that what should happen is this: define things clearly up front; set them in stone. Yes, well that’s going to work. I wonder why nobody thought of that before.



(They did; they tried it; it didn’t work; they still keep trying it. Idiots.)

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