alt Hacker NewsIs a repository on a linux machine an app store? Are custom repositories app stores? Does this mean that now most automated deployments are now not automated? If they can be automated, does that mean that having the automation by default makes sense?
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Android systems use Linux as their operating system, and the law applies to operating systems.
Android has associated app stores, therefore Linux must follow this at account setup ..
(I'm mostly hoping I'm just jesting here, that they'd surely not enforce it in this way, plus, who "provides" my Linux OS?)
In any event, it does seem like a very silly overreaching law, that should be highlighted, pointed out, and laughed at.
PS I have not read the law in question. I have read a PC Gamer article though, which is surely much the same.
The law defines a user as a child running software on a general purpose computer.
> “User” means a child that is the primary user of the device.
It’s definitely more vague that necessary, but I’d imagine courts would readily find automated software deployment by an adult or corporation does not constitute a child using the device. Especially if done for servers or a fleet. Because then it’s pretty obvious that a child is not the primary user of the computer nor the software. Even if that software is a server that involves childish activities (eg game servers).
But I’d imagine that Linux package managers associated with a desktop operating system provider would fall under this law. And that raises questions about the software distributed by said package managers.