My thoughts on California's AB-1043? * Do not entertain compliance with this law. * Do not comply with this law * This is a problem that is not solved by technology and code but with lawyers.
As someone who is deeply passionate about open source software, I feel like this law is poisonous not just to this project but to all open source projects everywhere. Compliance will set precedent for future heious acts that place responsibility on the software developers and to verify and implement X, Y, Z things. How will any DOS comply with killswitches? Biometric face scans and govt ID scans? This idea needs to be stopped now before it becomes a millstone around every developers neck. So, my opinion is crowd source public funding, and find lawyers. I -will- put my hard earned paycheck in this fight. Either way. This project will A) Continue to live because we put a stop to bad laws B) Die a quick death for failing to stop this C) Die a slow death through this law and every other law built around this law. ----- Some other folks will say, just don't open your project to California, but what good would that do for us if it gets rolled out in all 50 states because we fail to shut it down here? ----- Giving in is a losing game. ~ilobmirt On Tue, Mar 3, 2026, 3:40 PM Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > On 3/3/2026 12:08 PM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > Just one more stupid question: What would you do, when the law comes > > from Canada or Australia? They seem to have already one in Austrslia. > > > > Fritz > > Nothing. As mentioned this is all just "aus einer Fliege einen > Elephanten machen"... > > > Ralf > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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