Ryan FinnieAnubis has a pretty solid business strategy:
1) Release open source software for free
2) Add catgirl branding
3) Charge companies to remove catgirl branding
Stephen Brooks 🦆@ryan That's genius.
{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 }This made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
john fink ok!! :goat:@ryan yup. worked for my library. I suggested to install Anubis, they liked it just plenty, and then ponied up for the non-catgirl. I would have been perfectly happy with catgirl, but I am not.... as professional as some of my colleagues.
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🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@ryan
"We need more catgirls!"
"We need more catgirls!"
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Lexxy@withinity @ryan I hope one can pay but have EXTRA catgirls. And foxgirls, and dogenbies, etc.
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The Orange Theme@ryan So many HN comments were butthurt over the logo. I can't tell if they're weird puritans or secretly into catgirls and unable to process those emotions (or both).
The Doctor@theorangetheme @ryan If the local Meetups are any indication, it's the former. The latter tend not to show up.
@theorangetheme @ryan No, because it would not attract the latter, but beings who would be harassed.
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&@ryan You can still remove the branding without paying, right? 'Cause I could see running Anubis on our sites but I'd want nonhuman wolf branding instead of basically-human catgirls, hehe. Possibly even /less/ socially acceptable! But still different.
I wonder why companies don't just do that too. I guess paying is easier or just the non-catgirl version is easier to bring up to your boss.
artemist
@ryan certainly not the only chinese open source project with an anime girl mascot, 安同OS ("AOSC OS"), a community linux distribution in china, has an official set of qq stickers for their bunny girl mascot wearing a qipao.
the designer of the kde and krita mascots, tyson tan, is also from china.
Tom Elliott@paregorios @ryan nix4loong is chinese.
i would at least guess so, given that the website is in simplified chinese and it's referring to a mainland-targeted product, e.g. see https://nix4loong.cn/zh
(i thought they were the same entity as loonarch community, but they have different ICP registrations. they are related, though)
@ryan These days, unemployment being what it is... Good on 'em.
maelstromthe catgirl branding is gone <//3 (that or I'm doing something wrong because it's not appearing for me)
Jernej Simončič �
ARGVMI~1.PIFBut…the license is MIT. People can just change the branding themselves. 😵💫
Their new Thoth product sounds more like what would appeal to businesses…but it also makes me uneasy as that sounds an awful lot like “meet the new Cloudflare, same as the old Cloudflare.”
farlukar@ryan Except it doesn't work because AI bots have a gazillion nvidia units behind them and laugh at your silly compute quest?
@jernej__s @[email protected] @ryan The Pleiades gazetteer (https://pleiades.stoa.org) has seen significant benefit from Anubis.
Cassandrich@ryan Paid version for losers and cowards. I love it.
khmnow if only they offered a premium nonslopped subscription https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/AGENTS.md
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cgnarne@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] what, is this some kind of joke i'm not getting?
fozunja@[email protected] why would anyone remove free catgirls?
Gytis Repečka@ryan It would be cool to pay for Anubis and get even more catgirls on screen 
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Noxy 🐾🏳️🌈@ryan If I can't replace catgirl branding with gay endangered canine species branding for free tho, that's a bit saddening. I personally strongly dislike anime human-with-animal-ears aesthetic, and I (whether rightfully or wrongfully) tend to associate such aesthetics with edgy fashy 4chan internet culture