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Age Ratings in GNOME Software: Introducing OARS?

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 7th of March 2016 12:39:55 PM Filed under
GNOME

In GNOME Software we show lots of applications ranging from games aimed at pre-schoolers to applications explicitly designed to download, well, porn. A concept that is fairly well understood by parents is age ratings, and there are well known and trusted ratings bodies such as the ESRB and PEGI, as well as other country-specific schemes. Parents can use the ratings to control what kind of content is available to install, and vendors can use the ratings as a legal (or common-sense) control who gets to purchase what.

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