[HN Gopher] In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
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       In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
        
       Author : div3rs3
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2021-03-26 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | trhway wrote:
       | >The city's local government, spent 1 billion Swedish crowns (100
       | million dollars) over 7 years to build a massive do-everything
       | school IT platform, which students, teachers and parents are
       | forced to use. And their app is awful. Slow, buggy, almost
       | unusable. One parent managed to access other people's private
       | data, leading to @Stockholmsstad being fined for bad security.
       | 
       | where is juicy details like who did it? Oracle? IBM? ..?
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       | > So a few parents decided, since the data is basically their
       | data, to build their own better version. A couple of months
       | later, @oppnaskolplatt was ready.
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       | Bad precedent that must be squished ruthlessly. Otherwise next
       | time they would decide to have their own better roads, police,
       | government... that slippery slop of "we the people".
        
       | brighton36 wrote:
       | Government procurement is fundamentally broken, in the software
       | world. The incentives of procurement seems to ensure that the
       | worst software is produced, at a significantly greater cost than
       | free alternatives. I blame this on the rise of administrative
       | costs in the universities (which trickle into enterprise) and the
       | inherent disagreeableness (with outsiders) amongst the price's
       | law coalition.
        
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