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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.
The rest of the US is still available?
California on its own is the 5th largest economy in the world.
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.