@ret
On one hand, it drives me insane that FOSS projects, who would always pick up pitchforks and torches the moment anything even vaguely smells as unfree (to a point of promoting negative freedom as if it was a new strain of cocaine), are now rushing to give a blowjob to any LibFash shit-for-brains with AV.
On the other hand, when I think about the power dynamics, what can they do?
One option is go to the court. How many projects have resources to go into a legal battle with a state? Not many. Not to mention, who enforces the law? And where does one guarantee the state actor will obey the law anyway, especially in a fash-trasheap like the US?
So the only remaining options are comply or die. Because if the project would have had the legal power to take the idiotic law down, they'd have already gone for a fight assuming they're not a doormat.
So while want to rearrange Poettering's face for doing this shit (something I wanted to do even before that because he's an arrogant dick), he doesn't really have much choice in that regard.