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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by Retric on Sunday October 22, 2017 @05:13PM (#15528966)
It's the other way around. Remember, countries pay for R&D independent of the number of people in it, but they only get taxes relative to their population. So smaller countries need to spend a higher % of GDP on IT or deal with worse systems.

What's going on is larger counties made the jump sooner so small countries have many examples to learn from.

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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by DrScump on Sunday October 22, 2017 @07:00PM (#15529505) 

  So smaller countries need to spend a higher % of GDP on IT
That... or just import IT that was already developed elsewhere.
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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by Retric on Sunday October 22, 2017 @07:20PM (#15529585)
Nobody sells 100% of IT in a box for an arbitrary country, off the self, zero customization required. Now, they can import things like operating systems, routers, word processors, etc, but so can large counties. And even then localization may not work out of the box.

Remember, things like local tax laws are not going to simply reflect some other country's rules 100% of the time.

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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by vilmosi on Sunday October 22, 2017 @07:18PM (#15529580)
Let's be frank, R&D costs are not the problem here.
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