I guess I wasn't clear enough that I was referring to people who are directly encountering them, like the author of the post we're discussing.
I've worked directly with them. In my case, to get things approved didn't require any concerted effort or significant cost, it was just time. The government group would sit on the requests for a long time, doing nothing with them, asking no questions about what was submitted, and then approve them.
This wasn't speculation on our part either. We were told that was how it was done by one of the people involved in the approval process who was also frustrated by how long it took, but didn't have the power to change things.
The end result was that we did less work in these areas, even though there would have been significant benefit to the users of our systems and the public in general.
I guess I wasn't clear enough that I was referring to people who are directly encountering them, like the author of the post we're discussing.
I've worked directly with them. In my case, to get things approved didn't require any concerted effort or significant cost, it was just time. The government group would sit on the requests for a long time, doing nothing with them, asking no questions about what was submitted, and then approve them.
This wasn't speculation on our part either. We were told that was how it was done by one of the people involved in the approval process who was also frustrated by how long it took, but didn't have the power to change things.
The end result was that we did less work in these areas, even though there would have been significant benefit to the users of our systems and the public in general.