Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCalifornia introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setupwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square354linkfedilinkarrow-up1484arrow-down116
arrow-up1468arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setupwww.tomshardware.comAmoxtli@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square354linkfedilink
minus-squareDigit@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·19 hours agoOr they made a law to attempt to ban operating systems with free software licenses.
minus-squaremechoman444@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoBut that’s the thing you can’t ban them. It’s just software that’s freely available. There’s no one corporate entity that controls Linux. Anybody can literally make a distro for it make notation for it illegal for California and be done with it.
Or they made a law to attempt to ban operating systems with free software licenses.
But that’s the thing you can’t ban them.
It’s just software that’s freely available. There’s no one corporate entity that controls Linux. Anybody can literally make a distro for it make notation for it illegal for California and be done with it.