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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] Danitos@reddthat.com 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Worth mentioning that California's and Brazil's age verification laws were cited as a motivating factor in the pull request, the pull request ~~author~~ merger works for Microsoft and the author also did similar pull requests in other open source projects.

Edit: it was the PR merger that works for Microsoft, not the PR author.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

the pull request author works for Microsoft and he also did similar pull requests in a other open source projects.

So he made several mistakes as part of a co-ordinated jumping the gun on boot throating, AND he's getting paid to make open source software worse?

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