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Law.Gov: America's Operating System, Open Source
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| Public.Resource.Org is very pleased to announce
| that we're going to be working with a
| distinguished group of colleagues from across the
| country to create a solid business plan,
| technical specs, and enabling legislation for the
| federal government to create Law.Gov. We envision
| Law.Gov as a distributed, open source,
| authenticated registry and repository of all
| primary legal materials in the United States.
| More details on the effort are available on our
| Law.Gov page.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/lawgov-americas-operating-syst.html
Rock the vote? Trust it first!
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| Next week, a gathering of government officials,
| Hollywood progressives, techno-geeks and Rock the
| Vote officials will meet in the home of film
| producer/activist Lawrence Bender to discuss
| "open-source voting" and how to achieve
| reliability and accuracy with digital vote
| tallies.
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http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/10/rock-the-vote-trust-it-first.html
Recent:
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
|
| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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