While I was in Richmond, President Obama must have likened the rollout of the new health care website to iOS7. This created a stir among users in the tech community.
3/3 I don't want a President who only cares about the web when it helps him get elected, but not when it's designed to help the citizens.
— Clay Shirky (@cshirky) October 22, 2013
Sign the petition to open source all the code for http://t.co/hlZQ7Y0EBZ: http://t.co/FV1qDIXMin
— Anil Dash (@anildash) October 21, 2013
@CShirky made a number of comments that got my attention. For another take, see NPR's How Politics Set the Stage for the Obamacare Meltdown.