I'm sure the fear is that a commercial company will simply copy their work, and then go around selling it to other agencies without substantial improvement.
Stuff like this happens all the time in government contracting.
While I cannot directly speak for the powers that be, I believe this is their concern.
I had sent an email to gamespot saying that they lost a reader. Was my favorite gaming news site for years. Until i read a story about the editor got fired for stealing pens or j walking and not because he wrote an opinion, I will not read their articles.
I believe this post is very on topic.
--grz
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I'm sure the fear is that a commercial company will simply copy their work, and then go around selling it to other agencies without substantial improvement.
Stuff like this happens all the time in government contracting.
While I cannot directly speak for the powers that be, I believe this is their concern.
Bingo.
I had sent an email to gamespot saying that they lost a reader. Was my favorite gaming news site for years. Until i read a story about the editor got fired for stealing pens or j walking and not because he wrote an opinion, I will not read their articles. I believe this post is very on topic. --grz