[fladrif]

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.

[mcherm]

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"

[pixelatedindex]

Maybe I’m missing something but big corps do this, right? I legitimately expect folks like Musk and Zuckerberg to say these things. I get why that’s exactly the reason it’s satire but it’s a little too close to the truth for me to chuckle about it.

[fladrif]

This is because you're already in that mindset.

Try to take the stance of someone who doesn't really know too much about open source other than it's a nuisance to use, this is a great idea! I wanted to use this tool that corporate said we couldn't touch, but now I can!

[darkwater]

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.

[fladrif]

Unfortunately it's not too bad for them, it's too bad for everyone they're around. They aren't the ones that lose out when we start dismantling open source communities.

[lupire]

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]

That wasn’t people weaponizing satire, that was people just making weapons

[svnt]

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.”