California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law
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SteamOS could still be affected
  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    what’s worth considering is even on android forks that are deemed foss, they need lots of driver blobs for all the hardware, and some people intentionally install google servives via opengapps. how will those count for this law?

    and then don’t forget that due to drivers, relatively few open source desktop installations are fully open source