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Government should learn from that self organized teams who work for passion build better software. Authoritarian dictators mandating a poor solution vs self lead, self organized, committed parents building a piece of software they will instantly dogfood.

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I agree with the main point of your comment but calling the people trying to shut this down “authoritarian dictators” erodes the meaning of the phrase.

s/authoritarian dictators/power hungry, desperate to remain in power/

Or, far more likely, people who don’t understand this stuff worried that they are gonna get sued because they let private data be accessed illegally.

And I’m sure the vendor they paid a billion to also had sales people insisting that what the open source people were doing was illegal.

Please. If those in charge allowed the passionate to do these kinds of things, they wouldn't remain in charge. Authoritarian dicators not required.

Because there's only two levels 1. Passionate that produces amazing software 2. Completely don't care

In a nut shell, yes, but I'd modify the groupings: 1) Passionate people that rally others, 2) everyone else.

Whether you utterly don't care, midly care but not enough to do anything, or care enough to do something only when someone goes first, it is the passionate people that preach to the choir because that's how you get them to sing.

In most areas there arent enough passionate people to get something major done, as most OSS maintainers found out, thry rarely get a serious commit or contribution

I have said above this: there is no way to win if the opponent shows you an “ISO-9000” (et al.) certification and you are a “bunch of interested parents”…

You can only lose.

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