Obamacare website violating copyright

[Sam1]

This just takes the cake:

 

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-website-violates-licensing-agreement-copyrighted-software_763666.html

 

In short, this $640,000,000 website we paid for is pieced together with bits from open source scripts and they cut out the copyright notice (credits) probably to make it look like they created everything themselves.

 

Good lord I would love to own a company that got paid half a billion dollars to build a website that the top firms in America would've done for $50k.

[vontar]

wow, I know places that would have built and hosted far cheaper with five 9s up time with load balancing.

 

Sounds like they just gave 640k away to someone they knew.

[Guest TankerHC]

Hell, I could build one that good with Web Builder for 20 dollars. Could code one better than that for nothing. They probably needed the money for infrastructure because the billions of dollars in hardware sitting in Government warehouses all over the country would cost more to move with the aircraft, trucks and drivers we already paid for.

Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk 2

[Sam1]

Money for infrastructure?

 

We paid a Canadian company to build that website, so we're not even keeping it in-house to be taxed.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

A Canadian company with experience with
single payer insurance. I heard that that is
the reason they were selected in a no bid
let contract.

[Sam1]

Yeah, that turned out to be a great idea!

[Joseg]

fellas, they outsourced everything of that site.. it wasn't built in house by that company.. BTW, as a developer myself, it doesn't look too good for some of the open source technology used.. I'm sure Backbone is stable to handle all the hits, but the it infrastructure was not build for it.. too bad it's a federal gig or the CIO or IT head would been out of a job 16.5 days ago, instead they keep their jobs while we pay for it..

[Guest TankerHC]

I have seen better sites built by 12 year olds on Geocities 20 years ago.

[vontar]

Money for infrastructure?

 

We paid a Canadian company to build that website, so we're not even keeping it in-house to be taxed.

 

 

It should be against the law to for our government to outsource when it could and very well should have been done 100 percent in COUNTRY.

[greenego]

Three years to design and test. Guess they never got around to the testing part. Should have done a cost + contract then would would see some real $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Garufa]

It should be against the law to for our government to outsource when it could and very well should have been done 100 percent in COUNTRY.

 

Republicans will never go for that. 

 

I will go even further and say that any Federal government contract should only go to an American company producing goods in the US with US workers.  That includes the military.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

:rofl: I plan on being the last person on Earth to visit it. Based on the comments above, a two year old could have

made it. I guess I could have done better at web developing with it, and I have absolutely zero experience.

[bersaguy]

Now I am just guessing at this and remember this is just a guess but maybe they felt safer going off shore to have it done because they don't have anyone in their employ they can trust that would not become a whistle blower on how bad the program may really be and someone like Snowden or Wilki leaks might leak out just how bad it is and let all their hidden agendas and secrets about the program out...........jmho

[Timestepper]

I'm sorry, but I just don't understand the surprise. I mean, has everybody forgotten that this was farmed out by, to be developed for the same government who couldn't even keep a whorehouse open in a state where prostitution is legal?!!

 

I used to wonder why we never see any good Keystone Kops/Three Stooges type movies anymore, then I realized that everyone who could make nincompoopery and incompetence look flawless and natural was already employed on Capitol Hill...

[Oh Shoot]

...r the same government who couldn't even keep a whorehouse open in a state where prostitution is legal?!!.

 

Mustang Ranch? If so, c'mon, that's a absurd claim.

 

- OS

[Timestepper]

Mustang Ranch? If so, c'mon, that's a absurd claim.

 

- OS

Back '90/'91, I had bi-weekly run hauling salt from Hutchinson, Ks. to Ralston-Purina in Sparks, Nv. While I never had occasion nor inspiration to patronize the Mustang Ranch, I was in the area often enough to become reasonably familiar with what was going on:

 

Iirc, the story I read in the Reno Gazette-Journal about that time was (short version) that the feds had planned on keeping it open and running it until it could be auctioned off, but a U.S. judge refused to allow the <bankruptcy> trustee to take over the business license, so the IRS foreclosed on it and sold it at auction a few months later. In other words, they (the U.S. government) "couldn't keep a whorehouse open in a state where prostitution is legal."

 

And I'm still not a bit surprised that website has had as many problems as it has.

[whitewolf001]

[bersaguy]

Is their anyone in the country they have not copy written something on with all the phone and computer spying the NSA has been doing for past how many years now? Surely they have something from everyone. I think everyone should sue the Government for Invasion of Privacy Laws they have broken...........jmho