More of a mess in the Healthcare.gov website, Now with copyright violations!!!
Obama Administration Uses Pirated Code on Healthcare.gov
per http://torrentfreak.com/
"The new Obamacare website Healthcare.gov has had its fair share of problems over the past weeks, and the trouble continues. As it turns out, the Government website uses the open source software DataTables, which is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. While using open-source software is fine, the makers of Healthcare.gov decided to blatantly remove all references to its owners or the original copyright license."
Why this matters:
What they have basically done is strip away the marking that lable this as someone’s work. Its akin to taking a friend’s homework and erasing their name at the top of the page.
This (unfortunatly) happens all the time wrt open source software..
I hope whoever owns the copyright lodges a complaint and maybe a lawsuit.
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