From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Torbjorn Lindgren   wrote:   
   >The Artemis program has always primarly been about keeping the Pork   
   >flowing and to the "right" places for the established players in   
   >Congress and Senate to take credit for money being spent in their   
   >districts.   
      
   That is certainly some of it.   
      
   But there's this other problem: either you do stuff in-house or you contract   
   it all out.  If you contract everything out, then you need people in-house   
   who understand the technology well enough to manage the contractors.   
      
   You get those people either by doing stuff in-house yourself, or by hiring   
   them from contractors.  Hiring from contractors is a disaster long-term   
   because you get the fox managing the henhouse.   
      
   So you have to do some degree of work in-house, even stuff that looks like   
   busywork at times, in order to keep the kind of staff you need to manage   
   the work you contract out.   
      
   I'm not saying it's good, or elegant.  In fact, it's a hell of a way to run   
   a railroad.  But the alternatives are worse.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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