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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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[–] 52 points 2 months ago (4 children)

«We really dont wanna deal with these nerds, lets just ignore them for now»

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

    Also: << the nerds aren't going to do any of this shit, so... let's look like the good guys by exempting them so we don't look terrible when the nerds show how obviously this is all security theater >>

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