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Sounds great. Except that as a company, you can now only deliver services to this government. No products, since you will lose your competitive advantage. This is a big disadvantage for for instance startups that target this market.
Don't target that market if you don't like the terms. Someone else will. I will.
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For anyone who has not heard of the “postmaster debacle”, as I; it is a stunning atrocity of government that appears to have affected 3,650 people who were hounded and persecuted and prosecuted for various types of theft and malfeasance even though it was a glitch in the Fujitsu software that caused whatever appeared to have been thefts or irregularities in the accounting that was the basis for the government tyranni…
> I suspect this also has its roots in the European legal tendency to presume guilt and the accused having to prove their innocence This scandal took place in the UK, though, not in a European civil code jurisdiction. The concept of "presumption of innocence" originates in English common law.
And that was made even harder by the massive and continuous perjury by the Post Office when it came to the robustness of the system
The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…