If you look at the more niche Linux distros, they’re run by small teams of enthusiasts who simply don’t have the resources to tackle implementing the necessary systems and real-time API — it’s just not going to happen. In those cases, as Tom’s Hardware notes, their approach is likely to be labelling the OS as not intended for use in California.
And I don’t see anyone in the firing line, except perhaps Californian citizens…
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And I don’t see anyone in the firing line, except perhaps Californian citizens…
Bigger distros will need to add the prompt, and the path of least resistance is to add it upstream.
Would be interesting to see though what would happen if e.g. the Debian project just said: “Naa, thanks, we are fine without”. :-)
Which, what, Californians are gonna be IP/geo logged and blocked by distro websites from clicking the download button?
Oh no! Whatever will I do! torrents