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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AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
  • northendtrooper@lemmy.caEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I’m under the belief the push for Linux to be exempted is because the amount of work that enterprise would have to retrofit their network, server and software applications would be too costly. So once again Capitalism favors itself over the consumer. Just here the consumer gets a taste of what a govt exemption feels like.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      13 days ago

      It’ll be a lot more difficult to update Windows servers for this. This doesn’t make any sense.