Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency

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Post by ahub » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency
malus.sh

Re: Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency

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Post by ahub » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

I share the analysis, and am stunned by the gaping loophole they are exploiting. Is it the end of open-source?

Re: Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency

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Post by Hasnep » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 5:36 AM UTC

I've thought about doing this as a joke ever since LLMs started being used for generating code, I even made something [1] adjacent to it for April fools last year. It's weird to see someone taking the idea seriously.

[1] https://retributionai.com/

Re: Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency

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Post by moeffju » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC

ahub wrote: post #2

I share the analysis, and am stunned by the gaping loophole they are exploiting. Is it the end of open-source?

It's pretty clearly satire.

Re: Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency

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Post by pabs3 » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 4:19 AM UTC

Hasnep wrote: post #3

I've thought about doing this as a joke ever since LLMs started being used for generating code, I even made something [1] adjacent to it for April fools last year. It's weird to see someone taking the idea seriously. [1] https://retributionai.com/

MALUS is a joke:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_...