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

are they going to keep the exception if everyone installs linux now

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    Yes, but they'll rule that using free open-source software is terrorism.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    No they’ll just rule that services need to verify age; and since Linux doesn’t do that now it’s incompatible with the services people rely on.

    This exemption is no better than the Winona councilman who interviewed with CNN and heavily implied that all they had to do was wait until the people moved on from caring about flock cameras and then “it wouldn’t be a problem anymore”.

    They don’t give a fuck what we want, they want to implement verification as a stepping stone to real user ID and they will let Linux fall into irrelevance if it doesn’t comply. They think you will all calm down now since they appeased you with their “exemption”.

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

    Underrated comment.

    What I want to know is what about Haiku? BSD? AROS?

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