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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
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Re: California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
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#23I'm starting to warm up to this law. So many loopholes. Nothing to worry about. I think California's incompetence has finally progressed from "proposes bad laws" to "proposes and botches the implementation of bad laws"
Re: California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
#24Weird how the people who habitually complain about government are conspicuously silent when it delivers something they wanted.
A lot of people are not stupid. Age verification is a backdoor for control. I read and did not even bother to comment, it's like yay, that horrendous thing they were trying to do now it's not applied to everyone. I'm also sorry for California, such a beautiful place and full of wonderful people. I hope it will recover one day.
Re: California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
#25And now a bunch of OSI-Approved licenses get to have special rules applied to them, entrenching them and killing further innovation.
The bill exempts: > a person or entity that distributes an operating system or application under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the software which at least doesn't choose specific winners and losers among licenses. It does disfavor license-free and public domain software, which isn't great.
> It does disfavor license-free and public domain software, which isn't great.
Public domain software is free to "copy, redistribute, and modify", so ... where's the disfavour?
Re: California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
#26Excellent. From now on all kids will become linux natives. The decade of the linux desktop is coming!
Linux phones, Linux gaming machines, Linux on Desktop and Laptops, Linux VR/AR, Linux watches, etc.
Re: California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
#27Weird how the people who habitually complain about government are conspicuously silent when it delivers something they wanted.
It delivered an arbitrary exception to a stupid law. If all someone wanted was an exception for Linux, they don’t understand the problem with this law.
“California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt”
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hard to argue that it's open source...
Graphene should qualify. That would be a good incentive for kids to learn to root a mobile device and run graphene on it.
I used the web based installer and it was so easy that we would be complaining the kids are not really learning anything by doing it!
Re: California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bill exempts: > a person or entity that distributes an operating system or application under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the software which at least doesn't choose specific winners and losers among licenses. It does disfavor license-free and public domain software, which isn't great.
> It does disfavor license-free and public domain software, which isn't great. Public domain software is free to "copy, redistribute, and modify", so ... where's the disfavour?
It only applies to software distributed under a license. Public domain software isn't distributed under a license. It's in the public domain; no license is needed.
Re: California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
#30Cool now let's exempt hobbyists from the 3-D printer must certify you are not printing gun parts pending legislation.
A quick search suggests that 3D-printed guns being used in crime is an actual, for-real, and growing problem.
I take it that you wouldn't be OK with somebody building a uranium enrichment facility in their backyard for their hobby reactor. So there is a line to be drawn on where people's freedom to tinker ends; it's just a question of where you draw it.
Personally, I think given there is an actual documented, non-isolated problem with 3D printed guns being used for violent crime, there's a debate to be had that's more sophisticated than "REGULATION BAD".