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Cool. Now let's get the Library of Congress or NARA -- which are natural homes for this kind of thing -- to implement the public option free of profit-driven cruft.



That would actually be pretty cool. Too bad government software has a tendency to come out shitty and expensive.


If the government committed to the project being OSS, they might be able to recruit some reasonably skilled programmers.


That's mostly because the bar for entry is very low and the bid goes either 1) guaranteed company because of congressional lobbying or 2) the company bidding the lowest price who has even a -bit- of a change to complete it rather than companies with proven track records to produce at scale.


It's true in the main, but orgs like TTS (tts.gsa.gov) and 18F (18f.gsa.gov) are really changing things. Library of Congress also has a labs group.




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