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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 51 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

They added a voluntary field for date of birth. Very controversial. Not at all like the address field that had been there for years or realname. Those are completely uncontroversial somehow. Unfortunately it got added during all this uncertainty with all the user I'd government overreach. And people lost their everloving minds claiming it was some sinister forced Id check. It was not. But all the craze around it launched tens of already dead systemD forks.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    Worth mentioning that California's and Brazil's age verification laws were cited as a motivating factor in the pull request, the pull request author merger works for Microsoft and the author also did similar pull requests in other open source projects.

    Edit: it was the PR merger that works for Microsoft, not the PR author.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    the pull request author works for Microsoft and he also did similar pull requests in a other open source projects.

    So he made several mistakes as part of a co-ordinated jumping the gun on boot throating, AND he's getting paid to make open source software worse?

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  • [+] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    The author does not work for Microsoft

    My bad, it was the PR merger that works for Microsoft, not the author.

    nor he did add this field to “other open source projects”

    Yes he did. He did several PRs using/collecting that field:

    People just love to hate anything systemd related

    Agree, and I actually like systemd, but I don't see the relantionship between that and my comment.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Probably doesn't help there's also the existing fault line of 'an init system shouldn't be doing x', systemd was always a magnet for partisanship.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Well, yeah, because they added it because of the law. That's not speculation, they said that's why they did. I agree, if it was there before it wouldn't have been out of place, I totally get you, but they said that it's something they should add because it might be required by law in the future.

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