On 20/01/24 21:34, Ian Stewart wrote:
What can happen if your accounting software doesn't do the maths correctly (and you can wait 20+ years)...
Nine hundred wrongly convicted British post office workers are on their way to getting justice following a public apology from the company that provided the faulty technology that led to their false convictions.
Fujitsu director apologises for British Post Office scandal that saw 900 workers wrongly convicted. ---8<---
It will be interesting to see if there will be any consequences for those who committed the lying/fraud. On the topic of accounting software: What FOSS systems are there around that could do potentially the job that Horizon did? There are the *ledger systems, which use plain text data files and a command line interface which work great for small systems. There is Odoo, which is larger and I understand is used by some NZ companies. Neither of those would be suitable and I imagine that for a lot less than 150M pounds of public money you could make something well suited to the task. Glenn