Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille has addressed the ongoing debate over age-verification laws and their potential impact on free software operating systems. Long story short: he clarified that Debian has not adopted a position and is awaiting legal analysis.
In his latest “Bits from the DPL” message, Tille stated that the main question is whether operating systems and package distribution mechanisms might be required to provide age-related information to applications.
He noted that Debian and other projects are discussing the issue, and that Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit corporation founded to act as a fiscal sponsor for organizations that develop open-source software and hardware, has begun seeking legal guidance.
I don’t think you can include death threats under criticism
Yet here we are
I’m telling you that you did not understand what the guy you replied to really meant
Oh I know what he meant
I just think he relativizes how the discussion was going.
Constructive critizism is of course fine But this whole thing was the exact opposite