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The tldr version. US House bill HR 5009 was just signed into law. It's your typical monster appropriations bill for the Defense department. The section of inter
by kjellsbells 2y ago
The tldr version. US House bill HR 5009 was just signed into law. It's your typical monster appropriations bill for the Defense department. The section of interest is s.851 which prohibits DoD from contracting with entities that themselves use lobbyists for the Chinese government (which means Huawei, say).
I don't make the logical leap that this means that Linux is unusable by DoD unless the Linux Foundation ejects Huawei from the board. DoD would be buying from RedHat or even more indirectly from Lockheed or whatever, not the Linux Foundation.