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Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

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Ageless Linux is a Debian-based operating system intentionally designed to be noncompliant with California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), which mandates age verification for users. The project highlights how the law disproportionately burdens small and volunteer-driven Linux distributions that cannot implement costly age-gating infrastructure, contrasting them with large corporations like Apple and Google that already comply easily. Ageless Linux rejects age-based user categorization, aiming to preserve user privacy and challenge the regulatory framework by providing an operating system that does not collect or transmit age data, thereby exposing contradictions and enforcement challenges in AB 1043.

https://agelesslinux.org/

Does Software Piracy Exist?

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Software piracy exists; fonts circulate on pirate sites. Anti-piracy efforts often harm legitimate customers more than deter theft. The author's business relies on an honor system and focuses on attracting new customers instead of chasing pirates. There’s a debate over the optimal level of piracy: both complete prohibition and total freedom yield $0 in revenue. There's a rational-choice argument that, given two revenue scenarios, the one with higher piracy is preferred, emphasizing real revenue. The notion that piracy reduces sales assumes that pirates would buy the product if piracy were stopped, which isn’t true; most are not potential customers.

https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/does-software-piracy-exist.html

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