Obamacare website: Massive act of software piracy!

[The2ndAmendment]

Obamacare Website Violates Licensing Agreement for Copyrighted Software | The Weekly Standard

The latest indication of the haphazard way in which Healthcare.gov was developed is the uncredited use of a copyrighted web script for a data function used by the site, a violation of the licensing agreement for the software.

The script in question is called DataTables, a very long and complex piece of website software used for formatting and presenting data. DataTables was developed by a British company called SpryMedia which licenses the open-source software freely to anyone who complies with the licensing agreement

 

[Zoom-boing]

How in the world can this thing be so fucked up? CGI, the Canadian firm the WH hired to set this thing up (go America, eh obama?), is supposedly the number one IT company in Canada and has set up numerous systems world-wide. It's like a bunch of 19 year old vo-tech kids did it, rather than a professional organization.

 

[Mr. H.]

It just gets curiouser and curiouser...

 

[cereal_killer]

closed...wrong forum