Comment by al_borland
1 day ago
Wouldn’t that classification apply to Linux package managers as well?
They are publicly available online services that distribute and facilitate the download of applications from third party developers to users of a general purpose computing device.
That doesn't seem to be the intent for something like, say, Debian. How would that work anyway?
This would probably cover something like a Linux based Steam box, where there are different organizations providing applications.
That may not be the intent, but it seems like it would still apply. Many of the “app stores” on Linux are just front ends for the package manager in some way.
I assume the people behind this don’t know things like apt or dnf exist, so it likely wasn’t considered.
There are a large number of things that the people behind this don't know about. That doesn't mean that they screwed up. It means that the law does not apply to those things.