> As a user, I wouldn't want the government to tell me what software I should use. As a software engineer, I wouldn't want to be told what software I should wri

> As a user, I wouldn't want the government to tell me what software I should use. As a software engineer, I wouldn't want to be told what software I should write. As far as I am aware nobody is telling anyone what exact software to use or to engineer. Also nobody seems to be calling for that. What has been applied here instead are standards. That's quite a different thing and I'm pretty sure, as a software engineer, you're used to be told to follow standards, aren't you? They exist in other fields, too. Like citizen rights and protection of personal data. The advise not to use a specific piece of software because it doesn't appear to adhere to existing standards (by an agency with the sole purpose to watch over compliance) is also very different from telling people what software to use specifically.