0x03d ago
With all this age-gating bullshit, where does #Slackware stand?
#Gentoo's sadly murican, so I'm left with #Devuan.
Or trying #Artix. Or #OpenBSD.
Show threadFabian Transchel2d ago

@0x0 #Gentoo #Linux is no more "murican" than, say, the GPL is. They are moving to Codeberg, which is German-based and the main donation association (e.V.) also is based in Germany.

Apart from that, reading the laws it is not clear to me whether Gentoo is even an operating system, *much* less an "operating system provider" (in the sense of the law).

Show thread0x02d ago

@ftranschel
The Gentoo Foundation is, though. If they're the "owners" of "gentoo", then there's liability.

IANAL

Show threadFabian Transchel

@0x0 Sure, if you want to put it that way, there is a liability and if that is enough for you to deem it "tainted", I understand.

However (and IANAL myself...), I struggle to see how that could possibly be the direction and intent of the law: Is "#Linux" an operating system provider? After all, the Linux foundation is based in the US as well. Or GNU? Or the Calamares project?

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Show threadFabian Transchel2d ago

@0x0 If we put it that way, then OpenAI or Anthropic may be operating system providers, because their products could (assuming absurd amounts of compute) in principle produce a working system from scratch.

Thus, in a way, blocking/removing binhost repos from California might be enough to be non-compliantly irrelevant, because clearly source code is not an operating system and neither are stage3 tarballs operating systems and neither is the #Gentoo handbook in itself an operating system...