Apparently this will include Linux…

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      2 hours ago

      The law only specifies “computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.”

      Which is extremely vague. It appears that the intention was to just affect end user devices. Not specific purpose systems.

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      6 hours ago

      It goes way beyond Linux. Think any device that could download something at some point. Gas station pump, calculator, FreeDos, VxWorks, etc.

      There is a lot of language like “or can download an application”, so if you can download something, then that thing could be an application, and thus that device and it’s OS is covered.