Unsung, Unpaid Coders Behind Federal IT Dashboard

theodp writes "The Federal CIO got a standing ovation for the new Federal IT Dashboard. Federal contractors got the cash. But sneak a peek at the 'customcode' directory behind the Dashboard, and you'll see that some individuals also helped bring it to life with their free software. For starters, there's Timothy Groves' Auto Suggest (Creative Commons License), Alf Magne Kalleland's Ajax Tooltip and Dynamic List (GNU Lesser General Public License), and Gregory Wild-Smith's Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK) (modified X11 License)."

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Re:This is great!

[drinkypoo]

Then nobody cares that you didn't get the recognition that you didn't ask for, emo kid.

First, that was uncalled for.

I cannot disagree strongly enough.

Second, ever heard of good manners?

Yes. Not whining because the things you think should have happened that the developers obviously do not care about (lest they would have used a different license) is poor manners. No one wants to see you whine.

Just like it might be nice to click on the "Donate" buttons or seek for alternative way to donate to authors; almost nobody would complain if you did, y'know.

That's not called good manners, that's called being nice. They're the federal government, they don't do that sort of thing.

If an expensive US federal project can't even afford to put at least the names of unpaid contributors and honor them in that way... Well, the world is really doomed.

No, just the US of A.