Linux in California is in deep trouble - The Bryant Review (peertube.wtf)
from meldrik@lemmy.wtf to privacy@lemmy.ml on 08 Mar 02:03
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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 08 Mar 02:34 next collapse

I think this is going to end up in the Supreme Court as a violation of the First Amendment because it’s compelled speech. Since code is speech.

Edit: Also, since Linux is open source, it can very easily be forked out.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Mar 07:32 next collapse

Who tf needs too? There’s thousands if distros by now.

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 08 Mar 08:00 collapse

And according to this crazy law, they are all subject to this.

ehyuman@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Mar 08:26 collapse

so what

BladeFederation@piefed.social on 09 Mar 18:39 collapse

Terrible time for any case to being going to the SC

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Mar 19:35 next collapse

Emulator bleem court 2001 ruling on suicide watch rn

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 09 Mar 23:21 collapse

Yeah, that’s a fair point.

sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works on 08 Mar 02:55 next collapse

If a Linux distro is based on Californa, I can understand but Linux distros are generally free and under no obligation to follow California’s law

Fabrik872@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 03:09 next collapse

Imagine all your deployment pipelines will fail because docker images would be considered “os” and will ask for age on each build. That also begs a question what age is a robot account?

heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf on 08 Mar 07:14 collapse

Definitely underage. So that’s child labor, we’re all going to jail.

bitwolf@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 19:47 next collapse

Cant they just say “we don’t support California, you should not use this if youre in California” and do nothing else?

If someone in California uses it just say “we don’t support you, but here is our forums”.

Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml on 09 Mar 23:25 collapse

15:16 He is not reading that right. He skipped the “or” part. A covered application store includes, for example, the RPM package manager. The package manager can supply the age bracket. IBM does not need to be the one supplying the age bracket.