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

Satire is too dangerous to be presented outside of its community. This honestly should've been left within FOSDEM.

It's great within the context of people who understand it, enlightening even. Sparks conversations and debates. But outside of it ignorance wields it like a bludgeon and dangerous to everyone around them. Look at all the satirical media around fascism, if you knew to criticize you could laugh, but for fascists it's a call to arms.

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mcherm 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

No one who understands the first thing about this topic could possibly have read that web page and not realized that it was satire.

"Those maintainers worked for free—why should they get credit?"

"Your shareholders didn't invest in your company so you could help strangers."

"For the first time, a way to avoid giving that pesky credit to maintainers."

"Full legal indemnification [...] through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize software copyright"

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darkwater 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If people lack sense of humor or satire, even if pathologically, well, too bad for them. Why should the rest be denied of that satire? It's not harming anyone at all.

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lupire 2 hours ago | parent [-]

PP's point is that 2025-2026 is exactly the result of satire being weaponized to cause real harm, because people pretend it's truth.

	▲	dymk 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That wasn’t people weaponizing satire, that was people just making weapons

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svnt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is an overlay of smeared poop on one of the license files… is that something you are seeing on typical tech company landing pages?

The company is literally named “bad/evil.”