> I plan on switching to this as soon as I can

Too late.

> More reason to run your infrastructure using open source software in your own datacenter

Until they stop being open source. Like, you know, LocalStack.

There's a reason I point out the longevity of OpenStack. As a project, it has significant corporate sponsorship and policies to ensure that one entity can't take over control of it. For instance; the OpenStack Technical Committee is never permitted to have a majority membership made up of a single entity's employees. This means that even though Red Hat, at this stage in it's development, has a majority of contribution, the project itself can never be taken over by a single entity.

People find project governance, and particularly "corporate" involvement in open source to be distasteful -- but in my experience, and OpenStack is a winning example of this -- setting up good boundaries to let companies work together has proven to be sustainable.

> This means that even though Red Hat, at this stage in it's development, has a majority of contribution, the project itself can never be taken over by a single entity.

If it's one company with the majority of contributions then they can just stop contributing (or put their efforts into a proprietary fork) and all that you're left with is the code and the name. Which is maybe better than "just the code", but not by much.

It's an unfortunate accident that GM sent engineers instead of lawyers. I'm sure this will be corrected soon.

> Why? Why should Linux ever implement local laws like this as core functionality?

I have no idea.

But they did actually bend over.

> Age verification at the OS level makes no sense to me

If taken at face value, sure.

The goal of those age verification laws are not age verification.

All my kids had and have unfiltered internet access. The oldest being 32 and the youngest being 12.

All fine. The dangers of access to unfiltered information are certainly real but not worthy of constant worry.

They are.

I think this is the main reason why sane people are revolting against age groups, because mandatory KYC to use a locked-down Linux begins exactly with that: a small integer field in userdb.

Wouldn't it begin with one of the several other fields that already exist there?

Ah, because they need to move parts today to demonstrate that the parts are movable. This is a today's foot in the today's door.

> You'd think by now they'd have learned, but apparently not.

No. Suffering is the crucial part of virtue signaling, so bugs in slop rewrites are a feature, not a bug.

Yes, thankfully.

However it is pretty obvious at this point that Ubuntu will absolutely remove those from one of the future releases because availability of real sudo and coreutils is detrimental to the virtue signaling they are engaging in.

After being a lifetime Ubuntu user I have moved to Debian across almost all of my production.