• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 days ago

    Certainly an improvement.

    Courts should still find it unconstitutional because software is free speech. I am all for advancing open source and giving people good reasons to switch to it, but not by setting precedents that governments have any business deciding what features software is allowed or required to have.

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        6 days ago

        Free speech is the right to distribute any kind of information, including software code in either source or compiled form.

        That’s what the legal analysis should be anyway. Whether it will be…

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          6 days ago

          Fair fair, but that would apply only tp the source code, not the compiled binary/iso, not?

          If so, I think I would agree woth that take.

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            No, why would that be different? (…is what I in any case would argue if I were the lawyer for a distributor of operating systems, which I am not)