I work in civic technology, and one could easily rewrite this to say: “If I could short the entire big, fat, old, cynical, rip-off artist [government] software

I work in civic technology, and one could easily rewrite this to say: “If I could short the entire big, fat, old, cynical, rip-off artist [government] software business, I would,” he said. “They’re not innovating. There’s nothing that those big companies do that’s really any good. The caveat is it takes forever to rip out those systems.” The half-life of [government] software, he said, is often longer than desired, making it difficult for new, replacement technology to gain a foothold.