I love these satirical sites that take a jab at how LLMs are (genuinely) ruining software.
Malus – Clean Room as a Service
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#22I did try to upload a requirements.txt with "chardet https://github.com/prokopschield/require-gpl/
It does actually generate a price (which is suspiciously like a fixed rate of $1 per megabyte), and does actually lead you to Stripe. What happens if someone actually pays? Are they going to be refunding everything, or are they actually going to file the serial numbers off for you?
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#23I have to admit It took me an unconfortably long amount of time to realize this was fake-
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#25Note for people who just briefly skimmed the site: This is satire.
Yeah, thank you. I was starting to get a little heated.
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#26The fact that it took me the comments sections to understand this is satire speaks a lot about the current status of where things are going.
EDIT: Reading it again its quite obvious, I was just skimming at first, but still damn. Hilarious
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#27Oh no… VCs will see this and take it seriously
I think we've already seen this with "AI writes a web-browser" type PR. I guess we can still look forward to when they make license evasion an explicit part of their marketing. Then I can wryly laugh when somebody robo-whitewashes leaked commercial software, knowing that they'll get sued anyways.
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#28This is satire, but I actually have built something that can do this extremely well as an unintentional side effect. I will not be building my business around this capability however
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#29Not sure their attempted point lands the way they think it will. I view this as an unmitigated good. Open source every damn thing. Open the floodgates. Break the system. I'd cheer for a company like this. It seems to dance just on the other side of what's legal, though.
> I view this as an unmitigated good.
Then I don't think you've thought it through.
This entire software ecosystem depends on volunteering and cooperation. It demands respect of the people doing the work. Adhering to their licensing terms is the payment they demand for the work they do.
If you steal their social currency, they may just walk away for good, and nobody will pick up the slack for you. And if you're a whole society of greedy little thieves, the future of software will be everyone preciously guarding and hiding their changes to the last open versions of software from some decades ago.
You should read Bruce Perens' testimony in the Jacobsen v. Katzer case that explained all this (and determined that licensing terms are enforceable, and you can't just say "his is open mine is open what's the difference?")
https://web.archive.org/web/20100331083827/http://perens.com...
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#30malus, mala, malum ADJ
bad, evil, wicked; ugly; unlucky;
It's an interesting word in Latin, because depending on the phonetic length of the vowel and gender it vary greatly in meaning. The word 'malus' (short a, masculine adjective) means wicked, the word 'mālus' (long ā, feminine noun) means apple tree, and 'mālus' (long ā, masculine noun) means the mast of a ship.