Comment by ubershmekel
13 years ago
This is about as revolutionary as officially letting the plebs read the bible.
Pretty damn revolutionary.
13 years ago
This is about as revolutionary as officially letting the plebs read the bible.
Pretty damn revolutionary.
Anyone can already read the laws, though. I'm less sure that reading them specifically via git is a major revolution. it's possible something compelling will be built on top of it, I'll admit.
For the U.S. code, something like Cornell's LII interface, which for a long time has displayed both the current version of the law and, for any section, the history of amendments to that section, seems more user-friendly than a git repo: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text
>I'm less sure that reading them specifically via git is a major revolution.
You're very right. The hard part is knowing where to look in the documents, not where to go to find the documents.
In a former life I spent a bit of time with my nose in the CFR. The hard part was finding the which regulations pertain to me, googling for "47 cfr 73.3526" was a cake walk.