VLC-developer VideoLAN sends legal notice to Indian ministries over ban
The real issue, and it is one affecting all governments world wide, is pay, working conditions, and culture.<p>Whether the US, Canada, or I presume India, pay for tech expertise does not even remotely match the private sector.<p>If you want highly skilled devs, and management, people who understand and are experts at tech, you are <i>not</i> going to get them at 1&#x2F;4 of what is possible in the private sector.<p>And even if somehow you pulled in nationalistic, &#x27;serve your society&#x27; tendencies, the next part appears.  Work culture.<p>Government work needs to be highly regulated, very controlled, stodgy by nature, because it is for the public good.  It needs checks and bounds far beyond a private corp, or at least different than a private corp, this is the nature of the beast.<p>Private corp has mechanisms to ensure success, the primary being sink or swim profit motive.<p>Government requires monitoring and mission success determination in a different way.<p>A stodgy, stifling way.<p>The two times I took government contracts, it was an inordinately stifling, red taped, inability to think creatively culture, a stifling type of work.<p>So you have ridiculously low pay, coupled with stifling, non-creative work culture.<p>Yeah.<p>So no wonder no one knows how hacks work, or what VLC is, or how to enforce bans &#x2F; etc<p>The competence is, sadly, just not there.<p>And this affects all of us.