Open-source software is in existential danger -- and the ramifications of that are grim for everyone but the opportunists who'll make a few bucks from its demise.
@dangillmor what would prevent someone from using this on proprietary software to create a clean room implementation of that? What makes it uniquely suited to doing that to Open Source software? Looks to me like it's just pointed toward open source to make a specific point but should be usable on... anything, if it's actually doing clean room work.
@ubersoft @dangillmor IIRC, using Claude code in your workplace grants Claude access to "train" on your software, so all satire aside, yes it can also apply to proprietary code. The difference is there's less chance of detection with proprietary, because the source isn't available.
OTOH, scraping code is mostly scraping algorithms and algorithms can't be patented.
@ubersoft @dangillmor It is a bigger issue for freeware, because the GPL licenses were created to prevent exploitation of a developer's effort.
