--- title: System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks description: System76 CEO Carl Richell met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of the state's OS age attestation bill (SB26-051), and received encouraging signals... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/system76-tries-to-talk-colorado-down-over-os-age-checks-qgvzby32h twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks | daily.dev og:description: System76 CEO Carl Richell met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of the state's OS age attestation bill (SB26-051), and received encouraging signals... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/system76-tries-to-talk-colorado-down-over-os-age-checks-qgvzby32h og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qGVzby32H.png og:image:alt: System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary System76 CEO Carl Richell met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of the state's OS age attestation bill (SB26-051), and received encouraging signals that open source software could be excluded from the legislation. Similar bills are being debated in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah, and Brazil has already passed comparable legislation. The open source community faces an uphill battle, but System76 sees an opening to advocate for exemptions across multiple states. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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