Comment on UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn
kux@lemm.ee 1 week agoA Fujitsu programmer from the time, Richard Roll, who would become a key witness in the sub-postmasters’ high court case against the Post Office in 2019, told the Eye that Horizon was one the company’s few profitable contracts […] “We would have been fined,” said Roll, who worked at the company between 2001 and 2004. “So the incentive was to pretend it [software error] didn’t happen”, while running “a constant rolling programme of patches to fix the bugs”. Fujitsu “would basically tell the Post Office what they wanted to hear”
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Why would they have been fined over a simple bug?