| ▲ | rvnx 5 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Malus is not a real project btw, it's a parody: “Let's end open source together with this one simple trick” https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/talk/SUVS7G/feedback/ Malus is translating code into text, and from text back into code. It gives the illusion of clean room implementation that some companies abuse. The irony is that ChatGPT/Claude answers are all actually directly derived from open-source code, so... | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | otikik 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
They accept real money though. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | chillfox 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
It's not a parody when they accept money and deliver the service. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | LelouBil 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
First time I hear about this, it's interesting to have written all of this out. Now this makes me think of game decompilation projects, which would seem to fall in the same legal area as code that would be generated by something like Malus. Different code, same end result (binary or api). We definitely need to know what the legal limits are and should be | ||||||||||||||
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