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utopiahyesterday at 4:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

Don't believe in hell but I were I hope they'd be a special place for them.

It's like... revert patent troll? I'm not even sure I get it but the wording "liberation from open source license obligations." just wants to make me puke. I also doubt it's legit but I'm not a lawyer. I hope somebody at the FSF or Apache foundation or ... whomever who is though will clarify.

"Our proprietary AI systems have never seen" how can they prove that? Independent audit? Whom? How often?

Satire... yes but my blood pressure?!


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zozbot234yesterday at 4:38 PM

This is satire, but the very notion of open source license obligations is meaningless in context. FLOSS licenses do not require you to publish your purely internal changes to the code; any publication happens by your choice, and given that AI can now supposedly engineer a clean-room reimplementation of any published program whatsoever, publishing your software with a proprietary copyright isn't going to exactly save you either.

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karel-3dyesterday at 4:38 PM

It's a satire. The authors presented it at FOSDEM. They are people that worked previously for foss communities.

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