You would think that all IT would have a central vision and oversight. However, that is just not realistic. Once you get as big as the BIG BLUES and Softies, you have to rely upon others (employees and contractors) to follow your corporate guidelines. One big BLUE I know has compliance regulations out the wazzo, and has operations in China also. What they do in China is not reviewed daily, monthy or yearly and shouldn't have to be - that is what corporate regulations are for. No one walks around any major corporation looking in each line of code (especially beta code) searching for violations. Anyone that honestly expects any major company, with hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors, to catch every little undotted I, is naive. This especially happens in beta systems. Live with it. I have a slightly different opinion for production systems, but only slightly. It won't happen there either. Only people with nothing to do (which means they are on someone's list to be layed off) even have the time to find this type stuff in beta systems and code.
JMHO
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