It's the authors first time contributing to this repo and it the feedback on the PR that was addressed is really odd, like some of it is super basic stuff, even if you're not familiar with the code base or the language.

Just an all round weird vibe.

If California wants to create its own Protect the children operating system, it should bear the cost and responsibility for this alone, and not export any of the sketchy political agenda to the wider open source community.

But if this becomes a thing in Linux for the distro I use (doubtful), I will abandon Linux after 30+ years.

I am rather confident OpenBSD will ignore this law and I expect other BSDs will to. If not, back to DOS :)

Note, I have a BSD on a coupld of old laptops for testing reasons. I test what I write in the BSDs to help find issues, that works well.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

I feel like complying really undermines any first amendment arguments. Software is a first amendment protected form of expression, giving in before getting any actual threats from the state makes your participation seem voluntary.

Systemd's participation puts the entire world into compliance with a California law

They cannot loose markets, like California or Brazil.