<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The bills as created in California require age verification to install Linux, and the Illinois laws would be similar.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Some additional links:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/">https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/">https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 10:23 AM James E Keenan <<a href="mailto:jkeenan@pobox.com" target="_blank">jkeenan@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 3/26/26 11:17, Mike Fragassi wrote:<br>
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The Subject line of this email ends with "and Linux" ... but I didn't <br>
see anything in the body about Linux.  Can you clarify?  Thanks.<br>
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