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Doesn't matter. If you can't find a way to do so, then it becomes illegal to distribute or use Arch Linux.
by adastra22 1y ago
Doesn't matter. If you can't find a way to do so, then it becomes illegal to distribute or use Arch Linux.
- iamnothere 1y agoAs an American I will happily help my EU colleagues ignore this absurd law by any means necessary, even if it requires sending SD cards affixed to letters through the mail or embedding them in 3D printed trinkets. Or, more likely, simply emailing gzipped installers or providing convenient download links that circumvent whatever firewall is eventually set up (assuming this law sticks around, but it won’t).
- benbristow 1y agoOr use the censorship resistant protocol known as BitTorrent. Downloading Linux ISOs just became illegal for real this time.
- benbristow 1y agoLiterally no one is going to get arrested for installing Arch Linux.
- Hizonner 1y ago... because they won't be able to, because the project will have been shut down.
- benbristow 1y agoAfaik Arch isn't German, so why would it be shut down?
- Hizonner 1y agoThis is part of a wave of similar bullshit worldwide. And we have a bunch of countries trying to enforce their bullshit extraterritorially. Also, your lack of concern for any people or projects who may happen to actually be German is... disturbing.
- panja 1y agoNo it won't