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ExoticPearTreetoday at 12:39 PM1 replyview on HN

There is mothing to be gained politically by doing this. You think you look good if you say “hey, the Poles had this really good idea, how about we do the same”?

Plus, the process is something like:

- we want to do $something

- hire consultants to help us define $something and produce a document

- hire other consultants to write the specs for the project

- launch an RFP

- select a winner

- wait for the implementation to finish

All the proposed solutions will be something paid, ideally made by a really large company to lend it credibility, and with maintenance costs that justify hiring dedicated people for it.

In the end no one gets what they want.

You think if there was any will wouldn’t the whole EU use whatever the Estonians are doing very well?


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jen20today at 12:56 PM

> You think you look good if you say “hey, the Poles had this really good idea, how about we do the same”?

Yes.

> You think if there was any will wouldn’t the whole EU use whatever the Estonians are doing very well?

Using the Estonian system would be vastly preferable.

If politics doesn’t allow that, the political environment is broken.

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