| ▲ | greyface- 2 days ago |
| 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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| ▲ | lrvick 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | lovich 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | | |
| ▲ | reverius42 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > accepts tax deductable donations via opencollective but we do not actually have a registered legal entity that, uh, sounds sketchy | | |
| ▲ | lrvick 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | reverius42 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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 |
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| ▲ | moffkalast 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So OEMs will only be shipping Windows and that's more or less it. |
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| ▲ | lrvick 2 days ago | parent [-] | | And it will be wiped immediately as usual, so sure whatever. | | |
| ▲ | imhoguy 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Or it will have some new TPM/SecureBoot guard rails to not let minors install unapproved systems. Think of children again ;) | | |
| ▲ | lrvick 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | iamnothere 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Some of us hoard stacks of old computers (and lots of source code) in case they ever try this! ;) | | |
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