"Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch"

[ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk]

@bagder So this is logical conclusion of the python chardet library re-license.

Getting a court to rule is probably the only way to get a answer one way or another, but getting the LLMs to say definitively what is in the training set will probably be hard (claimed trade secrets).

Even if it's satire it won't be long

[tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk]

@clementd @bagder You'd think, but it follows on from his talk on it.. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/speaker/mike_nolan/

[antsu@p.antsu.net]

@bagder Aptly named!

[veeso_dev@hachyderm.io]

@bagder Nice trolling, but I'm puzzled, what happens if you pay? The stripe checkout page is real. Wouldn't that be considered scamming then?

[wouter@mastodon.simply-life.net]

@bagder Their blog: "Some will argue that what we do is exploitative, that we are extracting the ideas from open source while leaving behind the people who contributed them. To this I say: yes, that is a reasonably accurate description of our business model. It is also a reasonably accurate description of [...] virtually every company that has ever used open source software. We are simply being honest about it, and charging a fee for the privilege."

Must be satire indeed

[geospacedman@mastodon.social]

@bagder April 1st gets earlier every year, right?

[patrick@hatoya.cafe]

@bagder@mastodon.social

waow
SaaS (Stealing as a Service)

[jkmcnk@mastodon.social]

@bagder lol "LLM doing something from scratch" is literally contradictio in adiecto. :D

[andrewnez@mastodon.social]

@bagder are you saying that Dr. Heinrich Offshore isn’t a real person?!

[defuneste@fosstodon.org]

@geospacedman @bagder

I also got tricked until I read the "AGPL contamination" snippet:)

[scvalex@mas.to]

@bagder Finally I can fulfill my lifelong dream of reimplementing curl in a weekend!

[beandev@social.tchncs.de]

@foosel
War on OpenSource on a new level or pure fake. 🫩
@bagder

[sgillies@mastodon.social]

@bagder It's good satire. I'm glad you boosted it.

[acut3@infosec.exchange]

@bagder I'm pretty sure this is just a joke

[ramsey@phpc.social]

@beandev @foosel @bagder “If any of our liberated code is found to infringe on the original license, we'll provide a full refund and relocate our corporate headquarters to international waters.”

[vsz@mastodon.social]

@bagder concept tried and tested in production, to the joy of many: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322/files [ https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327 ] with improvement metrics also generated by the LLM: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/commit/59b0e4a25a0edcfa2bd61d3cc34b96fe9ef71b59

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@jimfuller whoever told you that was misinformed

[ancoghlan@mastodon.social]

@bagder The "Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize software copyright" asterisk is just *chef's kiss*

[km@mastodon.babb.no]

@bagder that was a nice one! a little bit _too_ obvious, but nice.

OTOH, recently i came across https://www.shiftify.us and read it as SHITTIFY and also thought that was a parody:

"Shiftify gives your team everything it needs to hire, manage, and retain a high-performing workforce with AI-driven compliance and precision in healthcare, biotech, government, and beyond."

but it probably wasn't a parody, but something real.

[critter_in_flux@fluffs.au]

@bagder I couldn't tell if this was satire or real. Searching, I think it's satire related to the fosdem talk on this subject.

It's horrifying to think that there are real people who actually think like the points listed on the site, even if the site itself isn't real