cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64992279
I am convinced this technology was made by evil people, for evil people. The sheer audacity shown by this company’s pathetic attempt at destroying open source. It now only shows how we’ve failed as a society:
-“Is your legal team frustrated with the attribution clause? Tired of putting “Portions of this software…” in your documentation? Those maintainers worked for free—why should they get credit?”
-“Does your company forbid AGPL code? One wrong import and suddenly your entire proprietary codebase must be open sourced. The horror!”
-“Tracking licenses across hundreds of dependencies? Legal reviews taking weeks? Third-party audits finding “issues”? What if you could just… not deal with any of that?”
-Some licenses require you to contribute improvements back. Your shareholders didn’t invest in your company so you could help strangers.
Some of the great claims they make on their website.
The people who run AI businesses should not to be trusted, not because of any consumer issue but their absolute lack of humanity and disgusting attitude. I will personally be shunning anyone around me who even gives a single fucking dime to these cockroaches. This will not have an impact not only on free software but literally any software you use, it’ll make the world of tech less free and we will become more dependant on closed source software. I suggest the open source community wakes up before it’s too late.
EDIT: To those who’re calling this out as “muh satire” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cahSKUYjuTE
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The company name is so interesting to me, there is probably some justification/origin that makes sense for it. But Malus is just so close to Malice…and thats just so appropriate, in an evil billionaire sort of way.
Because it’s satire
did you bother looking at the link I provided proving it is not? unless this is an elaborate satirical hoax, it’s real buddy.
I’m not watching a video. I’ve seen it before and tried it out on a project manifest just to see. It’s not real.
Testimony from companies/people like:
Former CTO, Definitely Real Corp
Patricia Bottomline
Chad Stockholder
did you read the actual (heathermeeker.com) link you posted? here’s its very second paragraph:
This week, many people sent me the link to the Malus “Clean Room as a Service” announcement. I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people send me a single link. Now, ‘’‘this website is fake’‘’, but you have to wade into it a bit to figure that out. No real company would be foolish enough to represent anything as “legally distinct,” for example. The name “Malus” suggests a bad actor, and I guess it’s a pun on Manus, a popular AI agent. So, it seems site is a troll.
because it does mean evil, the words share the same root
I thought that would be too on-the-nose, but people really fail to see that apparently
Nothing is too on-the-nose for capitalists. Look at Palantir.
Not watching the video, but yes, malus.sh itself is satire, even if what they’re satirizing is real enough.
edited on the real post: I was proven wrong it was indeed satire but as I’ve said…it’s strange and so like other companies to do
It does a decent job of being just realistically evil enough if you skim too quickly - there will definitely be people genuinely offering services like this in the not to distant future if real ones aren’t already out there.
It’ll be a maintenance and security nightmare for anyone who genuinely relies on it, though.
