Heh heh... so true it hurts. Why spend 3 years pushing it past risks reviews and oversight committees when you could just write a crappy version that does what you need?
Legal alone will spend months looking at run-of-the-mill software contacts trying to negotiate absurd concessions from vendors in situations where they clearly have no bargaining power.
We can spend a lot of money on Oracle for their profoundly obtuse products though.
> trying to negotiate absurd concessions from vendors in situations where they clearly have no bargaining power
I got front-line seats at a company with tens of millions in revenue try to get payment processor to remove escrow terms from the contract.
Said company got blocked at tier 2 support. They refused to escalate for a company who wasn’t a customer, especially when legal stuff was involved. Tier 2 had a script specifically for people like us.
I regret not bringing popcorn to that phone call.
In short: “Those aren’t our terms; those are the terms of a billion-dollar bank. Sign it or leave.”
They were very much not impressed with our claim to being the second-largest widget maker in the world.
Legal alone will spend months looking at run-of-the-mill software contacts trying to negotiate absurd concessions from vendors in situations where they clearly have no bargaining power.
We can spend a lot of money on Oracle for their profoundly obtuse products though.