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"For the purpose of....covered application stores."

I'd like to see that definition. My OS doesn't have an "application store", so I doubt it's impacted by this law.

I believe that if you have a network stack and can download files from the internet--which would include software--that it counts. I don't want to re-read to find the part, but they seemed to imply that any system where you could download software from the internet and then run it.

Found it:

> “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.

To whittle down the the important part:

> “Covered application store” means > any [...] general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application

If you have a network stack, you can 100% connect to a "covered application store" and thus the OS falls under the scope of the law.

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