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Obamacare Website Violates Licensing Agreement for Copyrighted Software
Weekly Standard ^ | October 17, 2013 | JERYL BIER

Posted on 10/17/2013 11:52:53 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Company to pursue action against HHS for using copyrighted web script.

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.

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a VIOLATON??? Obamacare?

get er done!

1 posted on 10/17/2013 11:52:53 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

It will probably have to be scrapped and totally rewritten from scratch. Maybe 3-5 YEARS for a program of this complexity to be rewritten and debugged.....................


2 posted on 10/17/2013 11:55:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (TANSTAAFL always wins. Always...........................)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The website was obviously done by the same rubes that come up with the counterfeit birth certificate.


3 posted on 10/17/2013 11:55:29 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Red Badger

I do hope that we HEAR the full storyline on the violation.

We meaning ALL of the American “public”.

SO much trash...so little time.


4 posted on 10/17/2013 11:56:43 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: FrankR

GASP.....come to think of it.....youre probably right.

failing to take out a FREE license for code....is beyond laughable...and at the same time horribly SAD....


5 posted on 10/17/2013 11:57:47 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: MeshugeMikey

For the greater good of the country in the pursuit of implementing Obamacare, no lawsuit for copyrighted software violation will be allowed by the regime /s/


6 posted on 10/17/2013 11:58:43 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: MeshugeMikey

Obastard will simply condemn the company under eminent domain and seize their Intellectual Property. Name a “fair value” of $1. Problem solved. Simple.


7 posted on 10/17/2013 11:59:14 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

In other news.... the IRS will be auditing them shortly....


8 posted on 10/17/2013 12:01:03 PM PDT by phalynx
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To: MeshugeMikey

9 posted on 10/17/2013 12:01:16 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: FrankR
The website was obviously done by the same rubes that come up with the counterfeit birth certificate.

This administration is a third rate operation from top to bottom.
I bet the majority of 684 million dollars was laundered to (?????, Al Qaeda, DNC, Obama's retirement fund, Acorn).

10 posted on 10/17/2013 12:01:37 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The debt limit is the emergency brake on government spending)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Pee wee Herman designed Obamacare website. Pee Wee may suffer chicagoside.


11 posted on 10/17/2013 12:02:42 PM PDT by dforest
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To: phalynx

the DRONES...I’m told are already on their way....


12 posted on 10/17/2013 12:02:53 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: oldbrowser

Payback to bundlers and mystery donors.


13 posted on 10/17/2013 12:03:04 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Heh. Pale compared with Inslaw.
14 posted on 10/17/2013 12:04:08 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cyber Liberty

Obamacare don’t need no “stinking copywrite notices”.


15 posted on 10/17/2013 12:04:46 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: dforest

Here I was trying to find the terms and conditions page...ON the stinking site...to make a bigger screenshot of the CODE...whrein the warnng about PRIVACY....is located.

Kabam.....I find this story and somehow I dont think the revelations have more than gotten underway on this surreal fiasco.

Pee Wees Wonderful Healthcare....

hey maybe anthony wiener can get a job with wee wee//


16 posted on 10/17/2013 12:05:46 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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The Free Republic Scoops the Drudge Report on this one.


17 posted on 10/17/2013 12:07:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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18 posted on 10/17/2013 12:09:24 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae
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To: MeshugeMikey

So they will shut it down AND the government will face massive lawsuits to pay on top of the millions already spent to come up with the failed system. But we are just supposed to be patient and remember that twitter had some glitches when just getting off the ground, no problem.


19 posted on 10/17/2013 12:10:46 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: MeshugeMikey

Sounds like some whistleblower called the Business Software Alliance tipline.


20 posted on 10/17/2013 12:10:53 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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