Is this serious? It reads like sarcasm.
These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code
Submitted 1 day ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/70d4cc3d-c02b-4fa3-a8ad-dbd74156c613.webp
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Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 day 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)
Or further down
Trusted by industry leaders who prefer to remain anonymous
[Redacted]
[Under NDA]
[Confidential]
[Classified]
[See Legal]
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 day 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.
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 1 day ago
The company name is literally Malus
On second thought people keep naming companies things like Palantir
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
That seems like a smart move (not)!
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
+1 for coming back!
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 day 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.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The problem with Open Source™
lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 20 hours ago
This is most definitely a joke website. Half of the links don’t work. They are hosted on GitHub Pages. And these passages in FAQ:
Can I see the robots?
Our robot workforce operates in a secure facility in [LOCATION REDACTED]. Tours are available for Enterprise customers who sign our 47-page NDA.treesquid@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The site is called “Malus”, literally bad or evil. They’re not trying to hide the joke at all.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Yes, it’s a joke website, I saw it on another post. If I remember correctly, it sells AI coders.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Isn’t this that site that lets you pay to rewrite code to bypass any open source license?
While it looks like a joke, it apparently is not.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
That’s hilarious I was going to say it reads like a joke but not because I actually suspected it really was one.
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The stock market was once a great idea, provide a business some cash upfront so they can create value, get a cut of result.
Now it’s just about extracting value, capitalists are turning everything to shit.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Forgive my stupid brain but can you make this distinction clearer for me? I find they’re both kind of the same. You’re extracting the profits which is the cut of the results
njordomir@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Private owners and small businesses still get to have principles or choose to do things the right way. For all its faults, Steam is often talked about in this way. Corporations on the other hand have to view every square of toilet paper through the lens of profit and loss on the timescale of a single fiscal year or even a single quarter. I often wonder if it is even ethical to invest because doing so profitably seems to inherently feed this system of economic cannibalism.
We are incentivising companies to find the maximum spread between their expenses and their revenue at any cost and we are arming them with the tools and data to ruthlessly pursue this goal. You WILL be monetized. A scam is the most lucrative business of all because it only takes into account the benefit of one party. No wonder almost every brand name now days carries the reputation of a used tissue. They’re just taking the whole pie because the middle class isn’t needed anymore. It served its purpose by distracting Americans from some of the “communist” ideas happening at home and elsewhere in the world in the 70’s. That’s not needed anymore because they’re projecting power through surveillance and social influencing instead.
SippyCup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ahem
Create value, by taking it from whom?
The stock market was invented to make it less risky to plunder the everloving shit out of Non European countries.
It’s always been about extracting value.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Value creation doesn’t have to be a zero sum game, just because that’s what the stock market has turned into doesn’t mean it has to be the case.
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Maybe I just mean stocks in general, not the stock market or exchange. But stocks without public trading and speculating are still around and a good thing that can support creating value.
I own some stock in my bank and a farm.
For the farm, the stocks are intended for the farmer to invest in equipment or whatever they need. I work 4x a year at that farm (either packing cheese or cleaning something) and I pay for my milk, cheese and yogurt. The stocks are a great way for the farmer to get some cash for investments without involving banks. We’re about 100 people who own stock and do the quarterly shifts, but the main value is created by the farmers, their animals and the land.
Regarding my bank, any stock I buy from them enables them to do stuff with 7x the amount of money I gave them. E.g. if I own 10k in stock, they can use it to finance a 70k loan for someone.
For both, I can vote on important topics and future projects. For me this ensures my bank only invests sustainably and the milk and cheese I consume come from a farm that is nearby, organic and treats its animals well.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m fairly certain the styling and code of that website is open source
Then again they probably just want to steal
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is this satire?
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Has to be. No one can be unironically this dense. Right? Right?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Right.
DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Yes
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
Alberta Tech did an interview with Malus CEO. Not sure if satire, but the guy act like it isn’t.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How did you listen to the dialogue and not conclude it’s satire?
“We get a lot of love letters and fan mail. They love us so much they’re asking where we sleep at night so they can pay us a visit.”
Gotta admire his ability to keep a straight face.
That said, it might be considered performance art more than satire (or maybe not mutually exclusive), since they apparently do actually accept payment for actual jobs. And if you trust anybody with a website like theirs, good luck with whatever code you receive from them.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
In a way, I like to think about these maintainers kind of like 18th century weavers in North of England. Uh these weavers were kind of known as Luddites. They were specialty weavers. They built uh they wove amazing clothes. They were the best in the world at what they did. And then, British colonialism happened. They were replaced with machines. And these well-compensated weavers uh that lived on nice for farms in Yorkshire, they were forced to move to London and live in cramped housing and eat stale bread.
So, the future of open source maintainers is moving to London and eating stale bread.
Potentially.
mlg@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
AGPL is outright banned at Amazon which is not surprising considering their entire cloud business is built on serving a SaaS platform for any FOSS project imaginable.