Interesting in that I wonder whether government organizations and in particular the highly qualified government members and their functions can be protected in a similar manner from political leaders elected in a democracy.
this could be true that as a different example along the lines of the same conclusion: Women-only medical conditions are less known by medical fields, and there are fewer treatments. Its because the society treats women's lives less seriously. For example pregnancy is still pretty mysterious in general medicine. Birth control pills are to prevent women fertility etc. It could be true that children lives are deemed more important by parents and more researched.
You can compare selling a database to selling git. Nobody is selling git itself, they sell the hosting around the tech, or create a dev workflow (gitlab) that uses git at its core.
If anyone tried to sell git itself it would be impossible. I never used mongodb for reasons listed in the article. But there is free and open source and resilient postgres.
the companies who succeeded around git did not build git. it would be a tough thing to develop both git and the hosting / workflow business around it.
so I guess the lesson to learn is don't try to build extremely sophisticated software as a startup where there are already good enough open source alternatives.