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Jun 2020
5:34pm, 18 Jun 2020
23,409 posts
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Johnny Blaze
"We expect big things from our app and we've bunged someone 100 mill to develop it" has morphed into, "Yaaahhhhh well, it's a nice to have."
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Jun 2020
5:47pm, 18 Jun 2020
4,174 posts
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run free
100 mill. That is an incredible amount to pay a company to develop an app. Normally am paid in stages when doing development work, even on govt projects. So if the company has not actually delivered a product that works, then they should not be paid the full amount. But geez 100 million for an app???!!! Obviously am not charging the govt enough when I work for them
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Jun 2020
5:53pm, 18 Jun 2020
20,621 posts
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eL Bee!
You have to be on the Old Boy Network to get such things....
And no - the money will magically never be seen again
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Jun 2020
6:12pm, 18 Jun 2020
7,631 posts
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jda
I think the technical term for a £100million bung to some mates is a "Grayling".
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Jun 2020
6:14pm, 18 Jun 2020
2,709 posts
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um
Where do you get £100m?
Spend to 21 May was reported as $6m
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Jun 2020
6:26pm, 18 Jun 2020
7,632 posts
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jda
You're right sorry I'm confusing it with the TTI contract which has so far yielded precious little. That was over £100m.
Hard to imagine what could be worth £6m for a simple app where there's already at least one open source version available.
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Jun 2020
6:29pm, 18 Jun 2020
2,710 posts
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um
And sorry - it was £, not $ ...
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Jun 2020
6:58pm, 18 Jun 2020
2,791 posts
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J2R
deslauriers, I think any US-UK trade deal will be massively advantageous to the US. They won't really need to compromise on anything. All the compromises will be from the UK side (e.g. environmental and food standards regulations). So I have to ask myself why the Government would be pushing so hard for this, given that it can only ever give us a small fraction of what we will lose from the EU, and at such cost. Who are Johnson, Truss, Raab, Gove, etc., working for? It certainly isn't the British people.
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Jun 2020
7:07pm, 18 Jun 2020
20,622 posts
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eL Bee!
J2R - It doesn't really matter when you are in the business of asset-stripping an entire Country
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Jun 2020
7:08pm, 18 Jun 2020
11,935 posts
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Markymarkmark
We are so screwed. 
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