Who really caused Obamacare website's disastrous launch? Just ask MSNBC.....

[Little-Acorn]

Good old MSNBC. Often in error, never in doubt.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/politics-other-controversies/119629d1382132222-who-really-caused-obamacare-websites-disastrous-gop_flubs_obamacare_launch_18oct2013.jpg

[Missileman]

Good old MSNBC. Often in error, never in doubt.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/politics-other-controversies/119629d1382132222-who-really-caused-obamacare-websites-disastrous-gop_flubs_obamacare_launch_18oct2013.jpg

Juan Williams just tried to blame Republicans on Fox.

[Kathianne]

How bad are the problems likely to be? They didn't get the easy stuff right, like crediting free open source software they used:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-website-violates-licensing-agreement-copyrighted-software_763666.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


Obamacare Website Violates Licensing Agreement for Copyrighted Software Company to pursue action against HHS for using copyrighted web script. 2:06 PM, Oct 17, 2013 • By JERYL BIER (http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/jeryl-bier)

Healthcare.gov, the federal government's Obamacare website, has been under heavy criticism from friend and foe alike during its first two weeks of open enrollment. Repeated errors and delays have prevented many users from even establishing an account, and outside web designers have roundly panned the structure and coding of the site as amateurish and sloppy. 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 (http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/) which licenses the open-source software freely to anyone who complies with the licensing agreement. A note at the bottom of the DataTables.net (http://datatables.net/) website says: "DataTables designed and created by SpryMedia © 2008-2013." The company explains the license (http://datatables.net/faqs) 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 (http://datatables.net/license_gpl2) or a BSD (3-point) license (http://datatables.net/license_bsd), with which you must comply (to do this, basically keep the copyright notices in the software).







Now one might wonder WHY they chose to use free open source software, when they charged over a half a billion dollars to set up the system, but if they thought it 'best' they may have cost US taxpayers more by not giving credit.