»Meanwhile some operating systems like MidnightBSD have decided they will exclude all users of the state of California from using their software beginning next January to avoid the headache of dealing with California’s Digital Age Assurance Act.« 🙃

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Digital-Age-Assurance

Ubuntu Still Figuring Out A Plan For Dealing With California's Digital Age Assurance Act

The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California's latest insanity: the Digital Age Assurance Act

»I'm pretty sure that Microsoft and Apple lobbied for it. This is not "Digital Age Assurance Act", but "Corporate OS Assurance Act". No Steam Deck and certainly no Linux preloaded PC for the regular Joe in #California.«

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1617320-ubuntu-still-figuring-out-a-plan-for-dealing-with-california-s-digital-age-assurance-act?p=1617327#post1617327

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