> Nationalisation works well for service organisations, not product development and manufacturing. Citation needed. Admittedly I don't have many good countere

> Nationalisation works well for service organisations, not product development and manufacturing. Citation needed. Admittedly I don't have many good counterexamples of efficient nationalised manufacturing, purely because in today's world there are SO FEW of them of any form (efficient/inefficient), but software products are a reasonable proxy. Take, for example, the healthcare.gov debacle, or the much publicized Standish Group stats of the ~83% failure rate of private software projects. Now look at some of the publically-produced civic software in the EU, or GDS in the UK (or even 18F though that's not really as clear cut and seems to be on the way out for not making enough profit or something....) People accuse the public sector of inefficiency, when all of the actual real inefficiencies therein tend to be caused by its interfaces with the private sector.