On 3/10/26 02:39, Jeremy Soller via ubuntu-devel wrote:
Hi,
My name is Jeremy Soller, and I am Principal Engineer at System76. We released a statement on Age Verification laws last Thursday that you can read here: https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification Our Founder and CEO, Carl Richell, was able to get a meeting with Senator Matt Ball today to discuss the Colorado version of the California bill, SB26-051. His statements after the meeting are as follows: https://floss.social/@[email protected]/116201429734101067
By his foolish, childish begging to rapist daddy and and lobbying *FOR* this treasonist bill, he did even *MORE* damage. Note that the alleged "FOSS exception" is none. Most FOSS licenses just aren't excluded from the spyware demands. The right way would have been standing up straigt and fight this tyranny by all means. Not kneeling down and begging for a little bit less punishment. He didn't learn the lessons of 1776. Frankly, as a company that's allegedly FOSS-focused, he also did massive harm to his own reputation. We just can't trust this company anymore, it's all gone. Now it's just one of dozens arbitrary HW vendors, and a very expensive one. I have no reason to even consider buying anything from them anymore. But rather some arbitrary chinese bullshit, because they're honestly bullshit and don't even try to pretend anything else.
At this time, we are seeing what kinds of changes might be made to these laws before they become effective.
The only acceptable change is full deletion. And criminal charges for treason for anybody who participated in that coup. (and yes, including the the whole Zuckerberg clique). Anything less doesn't help restoring the constitutional order.
We and our users greatly value our privacy,
See above. Can't believe you anymore. Anybody who bends the knee before tyrants just cannot be trusted. --mtx -- --- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering [email protected] -- +49-151-27565287
