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Let’s hope other states follow suit…
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AB 1856 doesn’t explicitly say that repos aren’t app stores, but a store’s main obligation under the law is to request an age signal from the user’s OS provider and pass it to developers; an exempt open-source OS produces no signal.
So what’s the outcome of that? Are covered applications and application store to treat users as children when they don’t get a signal from the OS?
Death nail for Windows
Wait… So if Linux doesn’t have the api (sorry, the “signal” 🙄) how will sites that require it respond? What does it mean to be “exempt” - every user is considered to be an adult?
You’re exempt from the service too probably.
For now. These kinds of laws always enroach.
My tinfoil hat is telling me they’ll do this to make an outlaw of Linux and block it from services and sites. I hope my hat is wrong.
Linux is now the backbone of everything. It you mess Linux up, so many things will break. They realized this finally.
A big win for open source software software.
More of a non-loss, sort of. Digital ID being normalized in any respect is still a loss for everyone.
Time to teach kids Linux
