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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61071136

Apparently this will include Linux...

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[โ€“] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

standing on a San Francisco street corner, opening my trench coat revealing 40 USB sticks

Hey kid, wanna buy illegal Linux?

[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It doesn't matter if you're, say, Debian, because they'll just put up some symbolic "not intended for use in state X" and then continue doing whatever they were doing, but if you're Red Hat and actually selling something like Red Hat Enterprise Linux to companies in the state, stuff like this is actually a pain in the ass.

And to reiterate a previous comment, the Democrats have a trifecta in both California and Colorado, and the legislation here is something that they are squarely to blame for. I'd really rather that they knock this kind of horseshit off so that I can go back to being upset with the Republican Party.