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Hell no, tech is a really hard job, and the legacy in-house software I've seen the french public companies use were definitely a machine to convert heaps of tax money into mediocre software that became obsolete a few years later. A tax-to-tech-debt pipeline.

The tech market makes progress through booms and busts, hype cycles, and bankruptcies. The government can't afford that, and it should not.

The taxpayers deserve the most efficient use of their tax dollars, and that's not through in-house tech.

The best you can probably get is public support for open source companies and open source products.