Linux in California is in deep trouble - The Bryant Review

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sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 178d

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

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 178d (6 replies)

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.

BladeFederation@piefed.social · 6 pts · 176d (2 replies)

Terrible time for any case to being going to the SC

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 176d

Yeah, that's a fair point.

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 176d

Emulator bleem court 2001 ruling on suicide watch rn

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 178d (2 replies)

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

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 178d (1 reply)

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

ehyuman@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 178d

so what

Fabrik872@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 178d (1 reply)

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 · 11 pts · 178d

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

bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 176d

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 · 1 pts · 176d

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.