Remember all the ruckus with various US states introducing operating-system level age verification laws? Colorado and California thankfully exempt open source.
I’m glad Linux is getting the exemption the community has so vocally shouted for. Maybe this will finally drive the “Year of the Linux Desktop”.
But I worry that this is just them slowly cranking up the temp to cook the frog. The boil is still coming, just slightly slower to prevent us from jumping out of the pot, ya know?
Yeah, even if they exempt it, commercial platforms may push for using a machine that can verify age, reducing Linux machines to hobbyist only activities.
Mixed feelings on this.
I’m glad Linux is getting the exemption the community has so vocally shouted for. Maybe this will finally drive the “Year of the Linux Desktop”.
But I worry that this is just them slowly cranking up the temp to cook the frog. The boil is still coming, just slightly slower to prevent us from jumping out of the pot, ya know?
Suppose we’ll see.
Yeah, even if they exempt it, commercial platforms may push for using a machine that can verify age, reducing Linux machines to hobbyist only activities.