This is - so wrong - on so many levels:
> Clean Room as a Service
> Finally, liberation from open source license obligations.
What is wrong with these people?
> For the first time, a way to avoid giving that pesky credit to maintainers.
Oh no - somebody did something great, and you have to mention them? You already don't pay them, now you don't want to mention them?
@ligasser Pretty sure this is satire lol (check out the small text at the end of the page, and other hints/jokes scattered around the page)
Very good bait though, seeing as it's got most of fedi riled up.
@pavled let's hope you're right :) Yes, paying 50 cents for leftpad seems very funny, but in recent months reality overtook comedy...
Also, if you read the hackernews comments, it's really bad:
@ligasser Well, this specific instance is a joke, but there are also unironic attempts at doing this:
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
So, yeah...
@pavled Here is the FOSDEM talk
Really awesome - frightening - I'm in shock :)
And still not sure how much is a joke, and how much they think this is actually something somebody should / could be doing...
Linus Gasser
Pavle
