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glensteinlast Friday at 3:08 PM3 repliesview on HN

As noted at the end of the article, I suspect the impact for many OS's is going to be that they add a line in the fine print somewhere saying not for use in California.


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prmoustachelast Friday at 11:27 PM

They could just comply by prompting the age of the account user in a text file. File that the user is free to edit.

BirAdamlast Friday at 10:02 PM

Already the case for MidnightBSD.

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kgwxdlast Friday at 9:12 PM

You're assuming they don't want this just as much as the government. Still feel fine about self-installed Linux, but every OS and device we don't have control over, even ones powered by Linux, will be very happy to include it, assuming it's not too difficult to add.