• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    standing on a San Francisco street corner, opening my trench coat revealing 40 USB sticks

    Hey kid, wanna buy illegal Linux?

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      It doesn’t matter if you’re, say, Debian, because they’ll just put up some symbolic “not intended for use in state X” and then continue doing whatever they were doing, but if you’re Red Hat and actually selling something like Red Hat Enterprise Linux to companies in the state, stuff like this is actually a pain in the ass.

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        12 hours ago

        It makes me wonder if REHL will get (or at least lobby for) some kind of carveout, since their intended customers are corporations. It would be really impractical at vest to try to make some headless server try to verify its age.