[kictanet] Kenya Bureau of Statistics Advertises For Tenders For Free Adobe Reader...

Adam Nelson adam at varud.com
Mon Feb 17 14:55:39 EAT 2014


This is for provisioning, not the license.

It's not totally unreasonable to charge 1k to install a piece of software
if it's done professionally and at scale.

One would hope that provisioning is happening via an image and people
aren't installing software individually on computers one at a time.


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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Josy Ngatia <josyveros at gmail.com> wrote:

> I Second you on this....!
>
> It's very discouraging. Unless there was typo of the service description
> from Adobe professional to Adobe reader..! Then the service is request is
> wanting
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Michael Bullut <main at kipsang.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Listers,
>>
>> I don't know how corruption smells but this looks like it! Read the
>> article *here.
>> <http://nairobiwire.com/2014/02/kenya-bureau-statistics-advertises-tenders-free-adobe-reader-corruption.html>*
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
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