I reckon Microsoft and others haven't learned from Lockheed in the 70s. It'll only be a matter of time before we hear about other charges regarding Apple and Google
Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes
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#12Microsoft spokesperson: "how dare you single us out, obviously everyone is doing this"
The headline reminded me of the SNC-Lavalin affair in Canada https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-snc-lavalin-court-idUKKBN...
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#13I knew it, their only way to push their services globally was to resort to that kind of behavior with dirty money
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#15I reckon Microsoft and others haven't learned from Lockheed in the 70s. It'll only be a matter of time before we hear about other charges regarding Apple and Google
What is the lesson you're alluding too?
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#16My work involves a public sector organization in Brazil. In the last years there was a big push towards microsoft products at my workplace, to a point where emails with announcements from corporate IT sometimes looks and sounds like spam pushing MS products. Now I'm left wondering if that's related to bribes here too, or if it's just bad judgement/taste from IT leadership.
MS is insanely powerful pretty much in every country in the world. They know damn well how to get into the power structures.
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#17Former Microsoftie here. After all the business ethics training videos I had to sit through, I am infuriated by this.
My thoughts exactly. Every year, the Standards of Business Conduct training talks about not bribing foreign officials and devs are like “who the hell is ever in that position anyway?”.
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#18> "What is a shock: This time around, the SEC and DOJ have both declined to investigate Microsoft over the same types of bribes in the Middle East and Africa. They acknowledged my evidence (which I submitted three times) yet did not take up the case, claiming that the current pandemic has prevented them from gathering more evidence from abroad—even though I have already provided documentation that I believe shows Mic…
The same bribes/kickbacks are very big in government contracts. Not sure what the DoJ would do when they would up investigating themselves.
With one major difference: in Africa, in general in the third world countries, whom to bribe, how much to bribe, who is the intermediary who handles the bribes, etc--are common knowledge. In the developed word, that is secret--only accessible to the super wealthy.
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#19The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act should be repealed and American companies should be allowed to compete on equal footing with their foreign competitors. No other country, even if it technically has an FCPA-like law on the books, actually enforces it to the extent the US does. It means that everyone is free to openly participate in bribery to win foreign markets, markets where bribery is just how business is done, while American companies have their hands tied behind their backs. This has overall been a major hamper on American competitiveness while being a huge boon to middle-men and white collar criminal defense lawyers who specialize in working around the laws and defending against prosecutions.
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#20I reckon Microsoft and others haven't learned from Lockheed in the 70s. It'll only be a matter of time before we hear about other charges regarding Apple and Google
What is the lesson you're alluding too?
There are a few: