What kind of incompetent administration would hire such a company? Where does the buck stop?
As people mentioned before, where was the outrage at all of the mismanagement and outright criminal actions during the Bush era in Iraq, for example? The roles were reversed and Liberals were told that their complaints, which were far more egregious than not citing open source code, weren't an issue and that they simply didn't understand the complexity of the situation there.
As far as where the buck stops? It will stop in the exact same fashion as it did for Bush - it will eventually have an effect on Obama's legacy (much like what happened with Bush) and it will probably be a factor in a future election, perhaps 2016 (again, much like with Bush). The only question though is how much of an effect it will have, and I have to tell you - regardless of your bias confirming temper tantrum about
"OPEN SOURCE COPYRIGHT ATTRIBUTION OH THE HUGE MANATEE WARBLEGARBLE", this is a pretty fucking minor issue to be waving around as an example of malfeasance.
And here, let me put this into perspective for you. I just now went to my Google news tab and threw in "Pirated code". This is what I saw:
Well, would you take a look at #1. It's an article by the exact same people that wrote the article you linked earlier, only now they're helpfully illustrating that METRIC FUCKTONS OF PEOPLE DO THIS. It isn't a rare thing, it isn't unusual. People tried telling you this but you were too focused on pushing through the point of "OH NOES" that you didn't want to listen.
RIAA and BPI Use Code on Their Websites | TorrentFreak
These type of violations are not unique, and can be found in many websites all over the Internet. Still, from outfits whose raison d'?tre is protecting copyrights, we have to expect that these issues are carefully checked.
The violations were probably caused by the web developers who coded the RIAA and BPI sites. We doubt that any of the higher ranked executives know about it, but next time they may want to instruct their coders to keep their site free from copyright infringements.
This is not the first time that an anti-piracy group has been accused of pirating software. A few years ago the MPAA removed the linkware license form Patrick Robin's Forest Blog software. The movie industry group later said that this was a mistake, and it was only used for testing purposes.
Just READ that shit. Your own source is now pointing out how common this is, that the RIAA and BPI themselves are guilty of it, and they then go on to talk about how the violations "were probably caused by the web developers" and they doubt that any of the higher ranking executives knew about it. This after you were trying to make a "WHERE DOES THE BUCK STOP?" argument as if we should go out and grab our torches and pitchforks and head over to the WH to hold Obummer personally responsible.
Explain to me if you will why people should get their jimmies rustled at Obama when by any other metric NO ONE HOLDS CEOS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT SOME RETARD MINION IN A CUBICLE DID [in regards to open source code, natch]. What makes Obama different that we must accede to your insistence that Obama be held responsible. Surely it wouldn't be because you have a political motivation to do so, no no no that
COULDN'Tbe the reason could it?
What about their comment I quoted above:
but next time they may want to instruct their coders to keep their site free from copyright infringements.
I mean, would that be enough for you? If Obama were to wag his finger at these contractors, would you be satisfied? Or are you going to keep demanding a different standard here?
