Perhaps short-sighted. Audit, yes. Github, no. Totally interested if there's really a poster-child failure of contractors hawking closed-source tools here, b

Perhaps short-sighted. Audit, yes. Github, no. Totally interested if there's really a poster-child failure of contractors hawking closed-source tools here, but we have be be very objective and professional if we ever expect to benefit implementation of public projects. FOSS is still in a state of having intellectually won to anyone paying attention without having won in ways that outsiders can understand, much less support in a context of public policy. I'm sure the SV approach to MVP's and demanding survival in short iterations has something to offer, but really it's going to take SV and FOSS together to figure out how to solve these problems in the first place before we waste two elections cycles talking about Obamacare and finally getting a $680m fail whale. We failed long before the exchanges showed up way overpriced and under-performing. However, let's say that Obama's 2nd election platform was about a pledge to lower credit-card micro-transaction costs for all consumers and lubricate online payments to lower the price of business creation. Stripe, Dwolla, Square, Venmo, and numerous others are born with a presidential veto to kill protective, industry-spawned legislation for four years, long enough to contend to become the Google of payments and totally disrupt banking, payments, and retail POS. All along the way, as the companies are competitors, they typically do not exchange value or software really, seemingly over-competing when all of them will end up writing bank integration software to get their network into the money system. SV and FOSS seems good at eliminating dead-weight coders and management practices, but can SV companies effectively use resources without meaningless competition and duplication of effort? Not as long as I'm going to be the founder and try to get super rich all by myself we won't... This is the problem with SV and FOSS that prevents us from coming up with the model that solves problems at the society level and involves government without creating the iron rice-pots that are the seed capital of government contractors.