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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

But they do have authority over government procurement, and this order even explicitly mentions that this is about government procurement.

Of course, if you make life simple by using the same offering for government and private customers, then you bring down your costs and you appease the conservatives even better.

Even in very innocuous matters, if there's a government procurement restriction and you play in that space, you tend to just follow that restriction across the board for simplicities sake unless somehow there's a lot of money behind a separate private offering.