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It's more than enough to build on. If a government simply decided that it was important to have ownership of their code and interoperability & future-proofing o
by Brian_K_White 4y ago
It's more than enough to build on. If a government simply decided that it was important to have ownership of their code and interoperability & future-proofing of their data & documents, then relatively over night any rough edges and weaknesses could be cleaned up.
It's like saying a house is unusable shite because the sink has dirty dishes in it.
- Hnrobert42 4y agoBut this is a government. Their operations, and the impairment thereof, affects millions of people. Further, they should be in the business of governing, not cobbling together solutions based on stackoverflow posts. Collaborative, concurrent document editing is a must-have feature, especially now with so much remote work. So it’s not just dirty dishes. A more apt metaphor would be a house where 10% of the time when two people enter a room together, they both lose their phones in the room, can never find them, and have to get new phones. I mean, I guess you could decide that outcome is better than a house in which 0.0001% of the time, the US government looks at the contents of the phone, but I don’t see why you would.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoThey can be exactly as in the business of governing while paying one set of programmers as while paying another. Try again. bonus try agains: And they have an obligation not to waste taxes on rent. And they have an obligation to transparency even if currently all fail to meet.