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cm0002@lemy.lol to Linux@programming.dev · 17 hours ago

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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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

cm0002@lemy.lol to Linux@programming.dev · 17 hours ago
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AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
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    Certainly. They set the precedent that open source software should capitulate immediately to any authoritarian demand.

    EDIT : I guess people haven’t read facing fascism :

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/revoluciana-facing-fascism-sabotage

    specifically https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/revoluciana-facing-fascism-sabotage#toc3

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      Fascism is when I can input fake birth date into my init system

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      What a shocker, such an optional date field indeed seems like a grave menace to all of the freedoms. You should make a merge request with an optional field for an user’s income, so that we may hunt the billionares and exterminate that vvermin with such powerful optional fields.

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