Obamacare programmers plagiarism
was Joe running the show again?
basically many decent folk put out copy-written info for us to use for free,.. all we are required to do is just let others know it is their work..
and if we make money sometimes we are obligated to pay them for their work.. (which seems fair to most of the programming world)
if you think about this.. the backbone of the site is data bases.. so the contractor,. stole the (free) copy-written material .. charged US $500 or $600 million,.. and still failed to get it up and functioning..
pretty incompetent comes to mind,.. downright criminal when you consider the scope of this fiasco...
was Joe running the show again?
Obamacare Website Violates Licensing Agreement for Copyrighted Software Company to pursue action against HHS for using copyrighted web script.
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. A note at the bottom of the DataTables.net website says: "DataTables designed and created by SpryMedia © 2008-2013." The company explains the license for using the software on that website [emphasis added]:
DataTables is free, open source software that you can download and use for whatever purpose you wish, on any and as many sites you want. It is free for you to use! DataTables is available under two licenses: GPL v2 license or a BSD (3-point) license, with which you must comply (to do this, basically keep the copyright notices in the software).
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-website-violates-licensing-agreement-copyrighted-software_763666.html
Even a cursory comparison of the two scripts removes any doubt that the source for the script used at Healthcare.gov is indeed the SpryMedia script. The Healthcare.gov version even retained easily identifiable comments by the script's author.
A representative for the company said that they were "extremely disappointed" to see the copyright information missing and will be pursuing it further with the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency that runs the Healthcare.gov site.
basically many decent folk put out copy-written info for us to use for free,.. all we are required to do is just let others know it is their work..
and if we make money sometimes we are obligated to pay them for their work.. (which seems fair to most of the programming world)
if you think about this.. the backbone of the site is data bases.. so the contractor,. stole the (free) copy-written material .. charged US $500 or $600 million,.. and still failed to get it up and functioning..
pretty incompetent comes to mind,.. downright criminal when you consider the scope of this fiasco...