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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