▲ 580 ▼ 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) submitted 1 week ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml 71 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (6 children) Expense of getting and staying compliant. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago If they didn't want it, they would have lobbied against it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 child) I don't think that is a problem for Microsoft, especially because they would want your ID and age, tracking you as much as possible already. Also you don't just change the Kernel just like that, there are licenses attached, drivers and other stuff. From technical point of view, in current implementation it is probably impossible. Let alone Microsoft would face issues with compatibility. If we put the technical difficulties aside, I don't even think Microsoft is against this law and pretty much wants it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 week ago They could just change the license of their codebase, if that's what they wanted to do. No way in hell they care about users enough though, and probably most windows users still don't care enough even about this to jump ship. permalink fedilink source parent [–] chewypoops@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago What expense? Adding one more thing to track about you, especially something they already know and essentially just need to verify, cannot be that expensive. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 point 1 week ago* Has Apple fully open sourced macOS? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accounts-billing/manage/verify-your-age-microsoft-account permalink fedilink source parent [–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 week ago To be weighed against the profits from having all that new data on user identities. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago If they didn't want it, they would have lobbied against it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 child) I don't think that is a problem for Microsoft, especially because they would want your ID and age, tracking you as much as possible already. Also you don't just change the Kernel just like that, there are licenses attached, drivers and other stuff. From technical point of view, in current implementation it is probably impossible. Let alone Microsoft would face issues with compatibility. If we put the technical difficulties aside, I don't even think Microsoft is against this law and pretty much wants it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 week ago They could just change the license of their codebase, if that's what they wanted to do. No way in hell they care about users enough though, and probably most windows users still don't care enough even about this to jump ship. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 week ago They could just change the license of their codebase, if that's what they wanted to do. No way in hell they care about users enough though, and probably most windows users still don't care enough even about this to jump ship. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chewypoops@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago What expense? Adding one more thing to track about you, especially something they already know and essentially just need to verify, cannot be that expensive. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 point 1 week ago* Has Apple fully open sourced macOS? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accounts-billing/manage/verify-your-age-microsoft-account permalink fedilink source parent
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 week ago To be weighed against the profits from having all that new data on user identities. permalink fedilink source parent