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Why not say "we won't sell to any customers in California" and be done with it? If someone goes out of their way to install Ubuntu on their system, it's up to them. Also, how is that going to work for OSes in the cloud? Will CI pipelines need to be age gated?
Because not selling your product to the 5th largest economy in the world is a dumb idea.
Except the whole point is that it's free and you're not selling anything anyways.
Ubuntu is in fact sold and supported and that generates most of the money to fund it's development.
The rest of the US is still available?
California on its own is the 5th largest economy in the world.
It recently overtook Japan, so it's 4th now...
And the rest of the US is unimportant?
Not unimportant, just irrelevant to this conversation, this is about California.
It is not. Leave California and serve the rest of the country.
What do you suppose is the US ranking among all other economies, without California? I don’t know any better, but something tells me California might be a pretty big loss. You can cut your leg off if you get an infection… but, you’ve still got to cut your leg off. That’s enough to make some antiscience people consider meds.
30-4 = 26
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-every-states-share-of-u-s-gdp/
Still largest economy by GDP. Next is China at 20 or the EU at 22.