[matt4077]

What's the word that means "uninformed person spewing tired cliches" again?

The EU bureaucracy is actually pretty good regarding open standards. They publish most documents in html/doc and pdf, see for example http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/?uri=CELEX:520...

They have also adopted the Akoma Ntoso standard internally, meaning all legislation is crafted in standardized semantic xml (as well transcripts, court proceedings & decisions etc). The public launch should happen some time early next year, and it'll allow anybody to do the kind of fun stuff you can do with a meticulously annotated, machine-readable history of 40 years of governing.

[dhimes]

I seem to have hit a nerve.

[emp_zealoth]

It is tiring to hear "goobermint so uncompetent" every single thread on HN