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12th March 2026 - Link Blog
MALUS - Clean Room as a Service (via) Brutal satire on the whole vibe-porting license washing thing (previously):
Finally, liberation from open source license obligations.
Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems..
I admit it took me a moment to confirm that this was a joke. Just too on-the-nose.
Posted 12th March 2026 at 8:08 pm
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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 12th March 2026.
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