Interesting comments throughout but.. - Selling to public sector is a costly and lengthy process. Not to mention the lack of competence from the public sector

Interesting comments throughout but.. - Selling to public sector is a costly and lengthy process. Not to mention the lack of competence from the public sector partners. - Usually, the money is made by making sure the entity will subscribe for as long as possible, and it should be possible to repackage the same software and sell to somebody else with little effort. - Open sourcing puts the company into a position where it's own code could be reused by the competitor without investing as much. - Furthermore, the projects are usually short lived due to the nature of procurement, budgeting and changing regulations. - It is a risky business that requires complicated solutions to complicated problems, not much of it is reusable outside of the specific domain. I was developing such software for years. Better ask yourself why huge IT departments are doing barely anything despite their funding.