I haven’t made up my mind on whether I like this law or not, but this is a bigger condemnation of the FOSS community than anything else. This law was introduced over a year ago, it was reviewed by multiple committees and nobody from the FOSS community ever went up to Sacramento to speak against it. A couple of emails to the right people back in March 2025 would’ve had a real shot of turning this bill into a non-issue. But nobody paid attention until it became a news cycle, and now it’s too little too late.

I hope this is a wakeup call for the linux community: if you don’t wanna get choked out by bad legislation, you have to get politically organized.