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Good news: the legislation doesn't target you as an individual. "Operating system provider" means a commercial or non-profit entity that controls the
by greyface- 2mo ago
Good news: the legislation doesn't target you as an individual.
"Operating system provider" means a commercial or
non-profit entity that controls the Internet-enabled device's
operating system, including the design, programming, or supply
of operating systems for the Internet-enabled devices.
- moffkalast 2mo agoSo OEMs will only be shipping Windows and that's more or less it.
- lrvick 2mo agoAnd it will be wiped immediately as usual, so sure whatever.
- imhoguy 2mo agoOr it will have some new TPM/SecureBoot guard rails to not let minors install unapproved systems. Think of children again ;)
- lrvick 2mo agoI specialize in TPM security and know plenty of ways to bypass it with physical access to consumer laptop hardware, and would gladly make that easy for the public if needed. But I hope they try this. It will be funny to watch the public humiliation of how hard it fails at scale.
- iamnothere 2mo agoSome of us hoard stacks of old computers (and lots of source code) in case they ever try this! ;)
- lrvick 2mo agoYou and me both.
- lrvick 2mo agostagex accepts tax deductable donations via opencollective but we do not actually have a registered legal entity, so yes, probably fine. I mostly just want to make it clear this type of legislation is unenforceable and a waste of everyone's time.
- reverius42 2mo ago> accepts tax deductable donations via opencollective but we do not actually have a registered legal entity that, uh, sounds sketchy
- lrvick 2mo agoOpencollective collects funds to distribute to open source project maintainers. Not that it matters. We have never collected a single donation, but figured it was worth a shot. lol.
- reverius42 2mo agoI don't really get how that works in terms of being tax-deductible. So I looked it up, and lo and behold: > Contributions to Collectives hosted by OSC are not deductible as charitable contributions for U.S. federal income tax purposes. So, uh, no longer sketchy but not tax deductible in the US. See https://opencollective.com/opensource#category-ABOUT https://opencollective.com/opensource#category-ABOUT
- lovich 2mo agoHow are you deducting the taxes without a legal entity? Or did you just mean that they would be tax deductible but not that you are necessarily deducting anything.
- lrvick 2mo agotax deduct able by the donating entity