It’s hard enough trying to get Linux adoption in schools and businesses. This law makes it an additional liability.
Administrators of FOSS systems will be considered OS Providers under this law, and will be liable at $2000 to $7500 for every child they expose to a non-compliant OS.
Those few schools that have adopted Linux will be forced to switch to M$ and Google products.
This is just another charge to add when someone is accused of a crime involving computers. It doesn’t have to be a computer related crime but just be part of their property.
Luckily this dogshit is completely unenforceable. It doesn’t excuse the people who introduced this law, of course.
It’s hard enough trying to get Linux adoption in schools and businesses. This law makes it an additional liability.
Administrators of FOSS systems will be considered OS Providers under this law, and will be liable at $2000 to $7500 for every child they expose to a non-compliant OS.
Those few schools that have adopted Linux will be forced to switch to M$ and Google products.
This is just another charge to add when someone is accused of a crime involving computers. It doesn’t have to be a computer related crime but just be part of their property.