how about instead of everyone does this shit you let them make linux illegal in california and see how quick the tech ceos show up at evil ken doll gavin newsom's chateau to get this shit reversed

@kirakira yeah EXACTLY. it would not be a purely symbolic protest, it would be a way to achieve real change

@ireneista @kirakira a few distros have already excluded California and other jurisdictions with similar requirements from their license. I guess we’ll see if that ever makes it to court, but while I can imagine California could punish a user I don’t see how they could go after the OS publisher

@ShadSterling @ireneista @kirakira I wonder how those exclusions are considered under GPL or general "software freedom" terms

@astraleureka @ShadSterling @ireneista @kirakira For GPL, at least, my obligations to you are tied to you having a copy of the compiled binaries (or source, I think?) that you got from me. So if I refused to give you either because I think you're a Californian, I might be an arsehole but legally I'm in the clear.

@thepi @astraleureka @ShadSterling @kirakira we're not lawyers but we're not clear that that's how it works