Obama administration caught in blatant software piracy; script powering Healthcare.gov ripped off from UK company

The Obama administration has been caught red-handed engaged in software piracy. Computer code used on Healthcare.gov was stolen (and then modified in an effort to conceal the theft) from a UK company called Spry Media.

To my best knowledge, this story was broken by WeeklyStandard.com in a blog authored by Jeryl Bier.

The computer code that was stolen is called DataTables, and it is exclusively provided under a GPL v2 license which requires anyone who uses the software code to keep the copyright notice visible in the code itself. This allows the original author of the code to receive attribution for creating it.

http://www.naturalnews.com/042564_Obamacare_software_piracy_computer_code.html#

It's they do things up north there in Chicago and communist China.

The link in the OP is dead.

They probably took down the story, because of the nonsense you just posted. A GPLv2 license means that the software is basically free to use. The attribution would be for the case of selling the software made from the software in the GPL. If you simply use the software in your own product, and then don't charge for that software, then no worries. If you sell software including the GPLv2 software, then you pay some to the guys who wrote it.

Not surprised that Conservatives are grasping at straws for things to complain about. Just wish you knew what you were talking about.

I see Osama's cheerleading squad made it in here.

actually it is woefully crappy!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101124856
If you did a Job like this in a private Company,you'd get fired a half-Dozen times over!

>>USA Today ran a story that quoted experts saying that the information technology system that HealthCare.gov is based on is a decade old, that it faces six months of "constant fixes and updates" while enrollment continues, and "an eventual overhaul of the entire system."

Federal officials on Friday told CNBC.com that the application section of HealthCare.gov continues to be "periodically" taken down from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. "for maintenance."

The Washington Examiner, quoting a person with direct knowledge of the situation, reported that federal officials did not allow the federal website to be fully tested until less than a week before the Oct. 1 launch of HealthCare.gov, and the 16 state-run insurance marketplaces that interact with it. "Normally a system this size would need four-six months of testing and performance tuning, not four-six days," that person told the Examiner.

Even before that, several reports said, the contract to build the site had ballooned earlier this year from an original price of about $94 million to nearly $300 million.<<<

found another link for the Story!
Fixed yours.

http://www.naturalnews.com/042564_Obamacare_software_piracy_computer_code.html

No, it was reported on national news that the copyright was violated. You should check out the facts before spouting garbage.

Facts?
Sheeple don't need no stinking facts.

True the software is basically free to use, but the ORIGINAL copyright notice in the code was removed. "A GPL v2 license which requires anyone who uses the software code to keep the copyright notice visible in the code itself. This allows the original author of the code to receive attribution for creating it.

An analysis of the code running Healthcare.gov reveals that the Obamacare development team maliciously removed the copyright notice and credit attributions from the code while copying and using the rest of the code. In the field of journalism, this would be called "plagiarism." In the field of computer software, it's called "piracy" according to the U.S. government."

Might I point out something?

The politicians who created Obamacare aren't the ones who were responsible for coming up with the computer code. That responsibility was given to hirelings.

Do hirelings ever take short-cuts? Yes, sometimes they do.
Perhaps these particular hirelings took a short-cut that their political bosses were not aware of.

Now, if a case of software piracy actually took place, and if the political bosses find out about it and do nothing to correct the situation (i.e. stop the piracy and punish those responsible for it), then I would gripe about the political bosses.