AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
  • Danitos@reddthat.com
    251·
    19 days 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
      121·
      19 days 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?

      • Danitos@reddthat.com
        5·
        18 days ago

        The author does not work for Microsoft

        My bad, it was the PR merger that works for Microsoft, not the author.

        nor he did add this field to “other open source projects”

        Yes he did. He did several PRs using/collecting that field:

        People just love to hate anything systemd related

        Agree, and I actually like systemd, but I don’t see the relantionship between that and my comment.