Open Source Effort To Codify America's "Operating System" Online 98
Rubinstien writes "O'Reilly Radar is reporting on an effort to produce Law.gov, 'America's Operating System, Open Source.' The group Public.Resource.Org seeks to 'create a solid business plan, technical specs, and enabling legislation for the federal government to create Law.gov. [They] envision Law.gov as a distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository of all primary legal materials in the United States.' According to its new website, 'Law.gov would be similar to Data.gov, providing bulk data and feeds to commercial, non-commercial, and governmental organizations wishing to build web sites, operate legal information services, or otherwise use the raw materials of our democracy.'"
YA REILLY. (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck the Republican party.
Wrong O'Reilly. This is Tim, not Bill.
Bug Tracker? (Score:5, Funny)
Spaghetti code (Score:4, Funny)
Refactor 200+ years of code written by a constantly changing development team with no central management, revision control, scope checking, flowcharting let alone UML diagrams, and text editor consisting of a feather and some ink?
Sign me the fuck up!
Re:I'm still trying to wrap my head around the tit (Score:2, Funny)
What does open access to laws have to do with operating systems
Suing someone over any disagreement is standard operating procedure in the United States.
Re:I'm still trying to wrap my head around the tit (Score:5, Funny)
... an attempt to ride the Linux hype wave ...
There is a 'Linux hype wave'? In which universe?
Time to reboot into safe mode (Score:3, Funny)
Re:first post (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Bug Tracker? (Score:2, Funny)