MidnightBSD, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system, has quietly updated its README to reflect a new geographic restriction. The project has added a clause that bars residents of any country, state, or territory with OS-level age verification mandates from using MidnightBSD
MidnightBSD chose to be out of Brazil, like it happened with Rumble. This law will be enforced.
If you live in Brazil and probably South America for some time, you’ll know that it is hard to get hardware from Europe even from Ebay. It simply “does not ship to your destination”. Now with the Mercosur + EU agreement that may be easier, but if software keeps leaving, the hardware and hardware culture won’t be able to make up for it.
It’s just software leaving the margins, and it will get worse if Google keeps pushing Android and Mobile culture further. Brazil may just become as corporate-centric as India.
How do you mean about India? Please pardon my ignorance.
India is heading for IT centric jobs in large corporations, planning to be “the brain of the world”. With many IT consulting systems all over the world going through India. That’s the plan. And that will be done by large Indian corporations, like the Tata consulting mentioned on the article.
https://www.ft.com/content/b3c0b486-07a2-11dc-9541-000b5df10621