Post #1951617
2026-03-21 09:24 UTC
@wwahammy There should be some kind of free speech argument saying that you can't add restrictions for free software developers like this. (After all.... source code is very close to speech.)
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@calcifer@masto.hackers.town 2026-03-22 02:05
@pavel @wwahammy this is fairly well-trodden territory. They can’t force open-source devs to implement anything, really. But they CAN regulate what can be SOLD. So the “right” way for RH/Canonical/whoever to comply would be to only ship the required capabilities in Enterprise Desktop versions of their OS. (Arguably they don’t sell an OS at all, but that would be hard to convince a jury of, I bet.) Then fight any attempt to enforce more than that.