Open Source Effort To Codify America's "Operating System" Online

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 16, 2009 @12:11PM from the does-america-run-linux dept.

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.'"

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YA REILLY. by tepples · 2009-10-16 12:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Fuck the Republican party.
Wrong O'Reilly. This is Tim, not Bill.
Bug Tracker? by Korin43 · 2009-10-16 12:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Issue #15327: Government OS fails to load Constitution.inc. Error message is "But think of the children!"
Re:I'm still trying to wrap my head around the tit by buchner.johannes · 2009-10-16 13:46 · Score: 5, Funny

... an attempt to ride the Linux hype wave ...
There is a 'Linux hype wave'? In which universe?

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