Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Definitely satire.

  “We had 847 AGPL dependencies blocking our acquisition. MalusCorp liberated them all in 3 weeks. The due diligence team found zero license issues. We closed at $2.3B.”

  Marcus Wellington III Former CTO, Definitely Real Corp (Acquired)

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s also the nice “trust us” under is it legal?

    Its a parody on how all of the data was stolen in the first place, also I caught some subtle nids to how fucked the maintenance will be.

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It feels like an art installation that actually can be used if someone really wanted to sabotage their business by creating a dependency on an unfixable mess. I truly believe there might be a substantial amount of business idiots out there who think all of this is a good idea lol

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• TheOctonaut@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The company name is literally Malus

  On second thought people keep naming companies things like Palantir

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• Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think this is just for fun. However, I did work for a company where we did everything in-house from scratch, down to our own font face, because we couldn’t afford the legal costs associated with deciphering license agreements.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That seems like a smart move (not)!

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s real. It’s very real, they’re very transparent about how shady and horrible they are, and their entire process, and why it is technically not illegal, and how aware they are of all of it.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, the down voting got the point across. No need to be a jerk and rub it in

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, you were at like 2/2 when I posted that…

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    +1 for coming back!

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have no idea, their website doesn’t seem to work very well on my phone, I can’t bring up their About Us or Privacy Policy / Terms of Service for some reason either.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The problem with Open Source™

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• lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s real satire, the worst kind. Or I guess you could call it self-aware trash? The whole site is “satire” and makes jokes about how this is bad for the ecosystem… But then, the product works. It accepts payments and delivers code in return.

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  • nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you tested it?

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    • lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not me, but a friend, yeah. And others online too.

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