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.
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.And these reviews. “Definitely Real Corp”? “TaxOptimal Inc”? “Profit First LLC”?
The site is called “Malus”, literally bad or evil. They’re not trying to hide the joke at all.
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.
Yes, it’s a joke website, I saw it on another post. If I remember correctly, it sells AI coders.
That’s hilarious I was going to say it reads like a joke but not because I actually suspected it really was one.
The stock market was once a great idea, provide a business some cash upfront so they can create value, get a cut of the result.
Now it’s just about extracting value, capitalists are turning everything to shit.
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
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. I’m not sure at which point these things become co-ops, but it seems similar.
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, I get some dividens (~2% usually) on that. Now does a bank create value this way? Probably not, but it’s better banking than the major names who have little transparency.
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.
edit: important to call out, these stocks are not publicly traded. Anyone can buy them from the bank/farm and the price per stock is set once or twice per year. So there is little speculating, and nobody can tweet about peace talks and commiting war crimes to drive the price up or down.
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.
I’d rather see everyone share and contribute to open-source code that moves all of humanity forward than private companies stealing other peoples work because they don’t want to share credit.
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.
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.
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.
Is this serious? It reads like sarcasm.
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]
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.
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
The company name is literally Malus
On second thought people keep naming companies things like Palantir
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.
That seems like a smart move (not)!
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.
The Problem with Open Source™
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.
Have you tested it?
Not me, but a friend, yeah. And others online too.
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.
Edit: I got got. Honestly, in this modern landscape, can you blame me for thinking people bragging about how they’re legally using AI to steal data were being satirical? The Onion notoriously can’t keep up with real world news, cut me a break.
+1 for coming back!
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.
Yeah, the down voting got the point across. No need to be a jerk and rub it in
I mean, you were at like 2/2 when I posted that…
I’m fairly certain the styling and code of that website is open source
Then again they probably just want to steal
Edit: it is satire
Is this satire?
Yes
Has to be. No one can be unironically this dense. Right? Right?
Right.
Alberta Tech did an interview with Malus CEO. Not sure if satire, but the guy act like it isn’t.
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.
In a way, I like to think about these [open source] 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textileworkers who were against the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, child labour, working conditions and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids.[1][2] Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.[3]
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Its satire bud.
Yes, but that’s literally the source.
