open source or not, they should follow the best practices, these don't. The fact is, really old open source cookbooks have been copy pasted, with the maintainers names changed, and hacked on top of. For example, the MySQL cookbook. This is against the apache2 licence that they were originally distributed under.

Sure, maybe at a company with enough resources to throw at code quality, but this is Walmart we're talking about.

How much profit do they make a year? :/