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
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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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.
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. 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.
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.
Is this satire?
Has to be. No one can be unironically this dense. Right? Right?
Right.
Source
Its satire bud.
