[csense]

A lot of people people contributing to FOSS are volunteers. The calculus of working on stuff for free involves an assumption that your worst-case outcome is you make $0. This act's punitive fines change the worst-case outcome to somewhere around -$9999999 or more.

If you work on any programming project at all in any capacity:

- Are you confident your work doesn't fall afoul of this?

- Are you confident they won't decide to come after you anyway for insane political, bureaucratic or "seeing-like-a-state" dysfunctions?

- Are you willing to bet millions of dollars in potential fines that your answers to the previous two questions are correct?

[jollymonATX]

Exactly and thankfully at least a few ppl get it! The risks of these sized fines, even 1 of them, is more than most OSS projects could cover.

[csense]

Just in case your answers to the parent post's three questions were "Yes, yes and yes" here are some additional questions:

- Have you ever uploaded a container to Dockerhub or Quay.io?

- Does that container have an OS inside it that has user accounts?

- Before you answered parent post's questions, did it occur to you that you might have to update your Docker images to comply?

- Did you remember on your own that you also have to delete or update older Docker images to comply, or did you not think of that until you read this question?

After you've answered these questions, please re-answer the parent post's questions.