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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 Internet-enabled device's
  operating system, including the design, programming, or supply
  of operating systems for the Internet-enabled devices.

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stagex 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.

> accepts tax deductable donations via opencollective but we do not actually have a registered legal entity

that, uh, sounds sketchy

Opencollective 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.

I 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

How 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.

tax deduct able by the donating entity

So OEMs will only be shipping Windows and that's more or less it.

And it will be wiped immediately as usual, so sure whatever.

Or it will have some new TPM/SecureBoot guard rails to not let minors install unapproved systems. Think of children again ;)

I 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.

Some of us hoard stacks of old computers (and lots of source code) in case they ever try this! ;)

You and me both.

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