I feel bad that they are being attacked/extorted. But it's somewhat hard to sympathize with them. First, (IMHO) outsourcing is generally a bad idea, and it sounds like they were just trying to keep their costs low. But as with every single outsourced project I've seen, costs ultimately skyrocket, and the client DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT.
It's insane to go with outsourcing for the purpose of keeping costs low, but then to not fire the developers when it starts to get ridiculously expensive (as it always does).
Over the years, the cost for TPS skyrocketed. NSC was soon paying $20,000 a month for coding!
"Over the years"? Over the years? It took years for it to become obvious that there was a problem? The criminal acts on the side of the developer are bad - no question. But the stupidity on the side of the client is just too much.
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I feel bad that they are being attacked/extorted. But it's somewhat hard to sympathize with them. First, (IMHO) outsourcing is generally a bad idea, and it sounds like they were just trying to keep their costs low. But as with every single outsourced project I've seen, costs ultimately skyrocket, and the client DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT.
It's insane to go with outsourcing for the purpose of keeping costs low, but then to not fire the developers when it starts to get ridiculously expensive (as it always does).
Over the years, the cost for TPS skyrocketed. NSC was soon paying $20,000 a month for coding!
"Over the years"? Over the years? It took years for it to become obvious that there was a problem? The criminal acts on the side of the developer are bad - no question. But the stupidity on the side of the client is just too much.