[ethbr1]

> Imagine what can happen if the French and other governments would start pouring all the money into developing that further in the open

You'd get a clusterfuck of a consensus spec, then they'd all get pissed off and develop their own incompatible versions anyway?

Have you seen international projects without strong, centralized leadership?

[kakacik]

I have worked on things like PSD2, a well oiled government-led machine that just works. There are some dysfunctional things, then there are things working perfectly fine.

You need to update your notes its not 90s.

[ethbr1]

Credit where credit is due, I think the strong centralization of the EU administration has made for better pan-European requirements and software.

Sometimes the perfectness of the product is less important than the fact that there was one opinionated decider.