I didnt't downvote, but you might be drawing a too rosy picture of the software industry. There are a fleet of travelling salesman paying for dinners and giving away luxury goods . You'll see microsoft throwing big monney around to have it's products adopted. You'll see big industry contractors playing all the dirty games to get to sit at the same table as a big potential client.

It's plenty corrupt when you look at the big fishes, just not as much as the pharmatical industry (yet).