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I don't think President Trump has any particular interest in undoing 18F. It's not a highly visible project by any stretch of the imagination, and if anything e

I don't think President Trump has any particular interest in undoing 18F. It's not a highly visible project by any stretch of the imagination, and if anything enhancing it would help him with his platform.

acdha 9y ago
He’s not a tech guy but he thinks he’s good at deals and wants to burn Obama’s legacy. I’m pretty confident predicting how that’ll go when one of the big contracting companies buys a membership at one of his golf clubs and gets a chance to talk about how much money he can save the government by getting rid of all of those expensive Silicon Valley types Obama brought on as federal staff. Convince the top executive and it’s really hard for staff to correct the salesguy’s misinformation (i.e. Oracle’s business model). There’s also no way that Congress doesn’t have money pouring in, since that’s legal for contractors but not government agencies. In either case, the actual results don’t matter: even if it costs more for worse results, a certain percentage of people think of privatization as magic and will support the image even in cases where it’s costing them money. You can see this frequently in businesses where the CEO sees only the savings in reduced headcount and is blind to the extra delays and failures.
- WorldMaker 9y ago
  Arguably this very comment thread started by an Oracle executive is a step in that direction, a feeling of tentacles by Oracle if they can shut up some of this open source competition they've been seeing. This administration is going to listen to guy who shows up to the golf club, an Oracle sales dude, not the policy wonk nerds in the basement of the GSA with good ideas and ideals that understand the government is not a business, and everything about this Oracle guy's comments are wrong.

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I don't think President Trump has any particular interest in undoing 18F. It's not a highly visible project by any stretch of the imagination, and if anything e

by microcolonel 9y ago

acdha 9y ago
He’s not a tech guy but he thinks he’s good at deals and wants to burn Obama’s legacy. I’m pretty confident predicting how that’ll go when one of the big contracting companies buys a membership at one of his golf clubs and gets a chance to talk about how much money he can save the government by getting rid of all of those expensive Silicon Valley types Obama brought on as federal staff. Convince the top executive and it’s really hard for staff to correct the salesguy’s misinformation (i.e. Oracle’s business model). There’s also no way that Congress doesn’t have money pouring in, since that’s legal for contractors but not government agencies. In either case, the actual results don’t matter: even if it costs more for worse results, a certain percentage of people think of privatization as magic and will support the image even in cases where it’s costing them money. You can see this frequently in businesses where the CEO sees only the savings in reduced headcount and is blind to the extra delays and failures.
- WorldMaker 9y ago
  Arguably this very comment thread started by an Oracle executive is a step in that direction, a feeling of tentacles by Oracle if they can shut up some of this open source competition they've been seeing. This administration is going to listen to guy who shows up to the golf club, an Oracle sales dude, not the policy wonk nerds in the basement of the GSA with good ideas and ideals that understand the government is not a business, and everything about this Oracle guy's comments are wrong.