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I really don’t understand what California and Colorado are trying to accomplish here. They fundamentally do not understand what a operating system is and I honestly 100% believe that these people think that everything operates from the perspective of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and that user accounts are needed in some centralized place and everything is always connected to the internet 24/7. This fundamentally is a eroding of OpenSource ideology dating back to the dawn of computing. I think if we don’t actually have minefold discussions and push back, we’re literally going to live in a 1984 state as the Domino’s fall across the world…
Remember California is the fifth largest economy and if this falls wholeheartedly, believe that this will continue as well as it’s already lining up with the other companies that are continuing down this guise of save the children. B******* when it’s actually about control and data collection…
Rant over. What do you guys think?
Edit:
Apparently I underestimated the amount of people here that don’t actually care about open source. Haha I digress.