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ronbentontoday at 1:11 AM2 repliesview on HN

I disagree wholeheartedly that there isn’t much to study. Direct File was actually a resounding success, especially when you consider how much difficulty governments tend to have shipping good software products. There is a lot of good information in here that government entities can learn from.


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mixduptoday at 1:13 AM

Including how and why it died. That is an important lesson for the entire governmental enterprise, including all decision-makers, to learn: that government CAN deliver something good and one single person should not be in totalitarian control

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firesteelraintoday at 1:35 AM

It had talented software engineers involved including with the marketplace. It succumbed to political forces