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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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[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago

Why do you assume that Microsoft doesn't want to comply?

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Expense of getting and staying compliant.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

To be weighed against the profits from having all that new data on user identities.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago

If they didn't want it, they would have lobbied against it.

[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

I don't think that is a problem for Microsoft, especially because they would want your ID and age, tracking you as much as possible already. Also you don't just change the Kernel just like that, there are licenses attached, drivers and other stuff. From technical point of view, in current implementation it is probably impossible. Let alone Microsoft would face issues with compatibility. If we put the technical difficulties aside, I don't even think Microsoft is against this law and pretty much wants it.

[-] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

They could just change the license of their codebase, if that's what they wanted to do. No way in hell they care about users enough though, and probably most windows users still don't care enough even about this to jump ship.

[-] chewypoops@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

What expense? Adding one more thing to track about you, especially something they already know and essentially just need to verify, cannot be that expensive.