This time it's satire, but I bet someone will offer exactly that for real in the next few days. The idea is unethical but far too lucrative from a business perspective.

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Maxion 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Often OSS is used not because you want the software, but the software and the upkeep. So even with such a service, you're now just taking code in-house that you have to maintain as well.

	▲	Spoom an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Realistically, if it in fact did take 5 minutes to do the cleanroom reimplementation, you could just process updates from the OSS source in realtime.

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tetraca 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The people that will take this as a good thing unironically will just have their personal Yes Man do that work internally.