No, it's a success -- at putting money into campaign contributor pockets, and proving that "government doesn't work".
Now take something like the California death registration system (https://ca.edrs.us/edrs/secureLogin), which, since it was developed by a mere handful of state employees (on-shore, of course) on a modest budget and runs on a single Linux server, completely failed to accomplish those financial and propaganda goals for the corporate 1%-ers. :-)
If stupid, greedy, people run with the project, it's doomed whether you slap "public" or "private" on the work.
No, it's a success -- at putting money into campaign contributor pockets, and proving that "government doesn't work".
Now take something like the California death registration system (https://ca.edrs.us/edrs/secureLogin), which, since it was developed by a mere handful of state employees (on-shore, of course) on a modest budget and runs on a single Linux server, completely failed to accomplish those financial and propaganda goals for the corporate 1%-ers. :-)
If stupid, greedy, people run with the project, it's doomed whether you slap "public" or "private" on the work.