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I don't think you can really argue either way on Government code quality. It depends entirely on how the project was set up and who did it.

There's plenty of Government software projects with the usual lists of WTF-generators like lowest-bid contractors, poor requirements communication, incompetent managers mostly concerned with covering their own asses, etc.

And there's plenty of other Government software projects made by a tight-knit core of highly skilled hackers with good goals under good management. See Stuxnet, etc.