Tech bros kill FOSS as a joke (and also receive money from corporations for it, also as a joke)
7 months ago by iByteABit to c/opensource
Some of them are pretty well marbled. I'm not saying they taste like wagyu, but there's only one way to know for sure....
some honey barbacued billionaire jerky would hit the spot
I agree with Prime on most things, but I think he’s getting this one wrong.
There are more options than just “light-hearted satire” and “earnest business idea”.
The FOSDEM talk is silly, and reads like a skit, but it has a gravely serious undertone.
The security guy has posted on Twitter “I still can’t believe he hooked it up to Stripe lol”.
Meanwhile the LinkedIn of the other guy describes him as a “researcher of political economy of FOSS” at Rochester Institute of Technology, and he runs a non-profit about FOSS for humanitarian aid.
He’s also been very active replying to people talking about the conference talk or the Malus site, asking whether they think this should be legal and what we can do to protect the future of open source.
I think these are people who take this threat very seriously, and are willing to expose themselves to litigation in order to force the issue into courts.
These people are evil. These AI data centres need to go up in flames.
Some jokes are not funny.
No need. Let corporations replace human-designed human-tested code with public domain slop. Soon enough they'll realise that they're using millions of lines of code that is completely unsupported by any sapient being and when they get hit with ransomware because their nginx-rewrite had a command injection vulnerability they will fire the CTO and replace all the slop with the FOSS licensed originals.
..... You know... yeah, that's true. One of the huge benefits of using some open source library is that you don't have to maintain it. But if you clean room it, then it's all on you.
Although, companies like Amazon will have the engineers to maintain it internally. But a lot of other companies won't.
And then you have the chardet guy: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
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They have so much, but they just keep taking. Like FOSS is the only thing still cool about computing and they need to have that too. Fucking casino ass country.
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