Apparently this will include Linux…

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    10 hours ago

    But embedded computing devices these days are regularly general computing devices, and have been for a long time. If my insert appliance x with an ARM processor isn’t a general computing device, then why is my raspberry pi?

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      9 hours ago

      That is not something I had considered, I fully agree.

      So many devices are built around SBCs running linux. I guess my first thought was that it is more about how the device is used and not what that actual OS is. But then how would the OS even be able to tell the difference.

      This is a distinction that they should have spelled out explicitly in the law.

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        21 minutes ago

        They basically defined curl as an app store: “facilitates the download of applications”