Why do I have to agree with USA law when installing Fedora or openSUSE ?

Linux@lemmy.ml – 150 points – 5 months ago

Debian or Arch or Ubuntu never ask for my confirmation ?

Example :

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Code should be protected under the first amendment

Sure, but again. That is only legally binding in US jurisdiction?

Only binding in the USA. Thoroughly ignored outside of it.

Source code is — Bernstein v. United States Department of Justice

Thanks for mentioning this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

The government modified the regulations again, substantially loosening them, and Bernstein, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, challenged them again. This time, he chose to represent himself, although he had no formal legal training. On October 15, 2003, almost nine years after Bernstein first brought the case, the judge dismissed it and asked Bernstein to come back when the government made a "concrete threat".

You are correct

There's no free speech under capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright

There is free speech in pretty much every capitalist country on the planet, but not in a single communist or socialist country of the present or past.

Keep your Communist ideals out if this please

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