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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 71 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Good, one more reason to slowly push people out of Microsoft's clutches.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah but today’s exemption is tomorrow’s loophole to be closed.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Ay? An exemption is not a loophole.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Right, it’s an exemption now.

    But the age gate crowd will call it a loophole in the future.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    True but that's like saying that your spleen is you. I met that guy he's an asshole or maybe I was thinking of the sphincter. But I digress. There absolutely are people, good people at Microsoft that do contribute a lot to free and open source projects. But Microsoft as a company has been horrible for 40 years. Never good for anyone unless perhaps you are working for them?

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