I would also interpret it this way, though California’s government is profoundly technologically incompetent, despite being the home of “Silicon Valley.”
Knowing California, they would try to twist the word “vendor” to cover any entity that does any kind of business, similar to how they dismantled interstate commerce protections for the entire country. If that didn’t work, they would argue that donations make something a vendor.
The situation is stupid and I am long past tired of idiots pushing idiocy on others en masse.
Personally, I think this first response nails it.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043515.html
Linux is not sold. So you either need to force users to install this on their systems, or go eat rocks.
Enterprise distros on the other hand… Need to do this.
I would also interpret it this way, though California’s government is profoundly technologically incompetent, despite being the home of “Silicon Valley.”
Knowing California, they would try to twist the word “vendor” to cover any entity that does any kind of business, similar to how they dismantled interstate commerce protections for the entire country. If that didn’t work, they would argue that donations make something a vendor.
The situation is stupid and I am long past tired of idiots pushing idiocy on others en masse.