The countrys top computer experts in Silicon Valley are mortified that the federal government can waste at least $400 million building an Obamacare website that is so terrible. According to New York magazine, one tech worker quipped that a Stanford computer-science class could have built healthcare.gov for a thousandth of the reported $400 million–plus budget. Matt Mullenweg, the co-developer of WordPress, said the Canadian firm that oversaw the healthcare.gov website received more money than all the revenue of most Silicon Valley start-ups combined. If the government is going to spend that much money on something, it should be open source, Mullenweg told New York magazine. How cool would it have been if the site launched, didnt work, and some passionate coders came in and said, Oh, heres a problem, and here, and here? But the people who want to help arent able to. Eric Ries, described as a member of the Silicon Valleys cognoscenti, said Healthcare.govs failures represented state-of-the-art incompetence.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:47:16 +0000
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