Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
In Germany the app was developed by research institutes. Then canceled. Then SAP picked it up and charged 10 million Euros for what is essentially a few 1000 lines of UI code. The German Telekom got the same amount, just „because“ and will additionally charge 2-3 million per month mostly for the hotline (with limited capacity).<p>So the total cost will be 50-100 millions. Despite the fact that most technical work was already done by Apple and Google for free.<p>I‘m not even talking about the fact that my dad got a new phone to run it - sold by T-Mobile (Telekom) of course.<p>And hardly anyone complained.