It's not a matter of OSS vs proprietary [LWN.net]

It's not a matter of OSS vs proprietary

Posted Mar 13, 2026 10:54 UTC (Fri) by jpeisach (subscriber, #181966)
In reply to: It's not a matter of OSS vs proprietary by wtarreau
Parent article: California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

As I said above, literally a popup window asking for an age is sufficient to please the politicians

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Posted Mar 13, 2026 11:16 UTC (Fri) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link] (2 responses)

Not all devices running an OS have a display (or display a web page, FWIW).

Posted Mar 13, 2026 11:23 UTC (Fri) by jpeisach (subscriber, #181966) [Link] (1 responses)

> Not all devices running an OS have a display (or display a web page, FWIW).

Then as far as politicians are concerned, that is not a computer, LOL.

Posted Mar 13, 2026 13:53 UTC (Fri) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link]

> > Not all devices running an OS have a display (or display a web page, FWIW).

> Then as far as politicians are concerned, that is not a computer, LOL.

They're speaking about operating systems, not computers. It would be easier if they'd speak about computers, defining what they call as such.