▲ 215 ▼ An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 8 months ago by ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 56 comments fedilink hide all child comments 🤡 1 Apparently this will include Linux...
[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 91 points 8 months ago (3 children) standing on a San Francisco street corner, opening my trench coat revealing 40 USB sticks Hey kid, wanna buy illegal Linux? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] tal@lemmy.today 35 points 8 months ago* (1 child) It doesn't matter if you're, say, Debian, because they'll just put up some symbolic "not intended for use in state X" and then continue doing whatever they were doing, but if you're Red Hat and actually selling something like Red Hat Enterprise Linux to companies in the state, stuff like this is actually a pain in the ass. And to reiterate a previous comment, the Democrats have a trifecta in both California and Colorado, and the legislation here is something that they are squarely to blame for. I'd really rather that they knock this kind of horseshit off so that I can go back to being upset with the Republican Party. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] night_petal@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago* It makes me wonder if RHEL will get (or at least lobby for) some kind of carveout, since their intended customers are corporations. It would be really impractical at vest to try to make some headless server try to verify its age. permalink fedilink source parent [–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago "Naw, BSD or GTFO, lol." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tal@lemmy.today 35 points 8 months ago* (1 child) It doesn't matter if you're, say, Debian, because they'll just put up some symbolic "not intended for use in state X" and then continue doing whatever they were doing, but if you're Red Hat and actually selling something like Red Hat Enterprise Linux to companies in the state, stuff like this is actually a pain in the ass. And to reiterate a previous comment, the Democrats have a trifecta in both California and Colorado, and the legislation here is something that they are squarely to blame for. I'd really rather that they knock this kind of horseshit off so that I can go back to being upset with the Republican Party. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] night_petal@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago* It makes me wonder if RHEL will get (or at least lobby for) some kind of carveout, since their intended customers are corporations. It would be really impractical at vest to try to make some headless server try to verify its age. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] night_petal@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago* It makes me wonder if RHEL will get (or at least lobby for) some kind of carveout, since their intended customers are corporations. It would be really impractical at vest to try to make some headless server try to verify its age. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago "Naw, BSD or GTFO, lol." permalink fedilink source parent