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Nolski··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
It depends. Although they always have entirely separate contexts.
Nolski··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
This is a good idea. Do you have a package in mind?
Nolski··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
Upload your manifest and find out! :)
Nolski··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
What makes this service not real?
Nolski··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
It makes me really happy to see this comment :)
Nolski··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
Yes. Provided you had access to the original source code. Pheonix technologies did this with the IBM bios.
Nolski··on Shall I implement it? No
Strange. This is exactly how I made malus.sh
Nolski··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
Is it satire? Or is it a warning?
Nolski··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
It's described on the web page but it's by having 2 agents. One has access to the code and one doesn't.
Nolski··on It's time for open source to retire
Is it satire if it actually works and you can pay real money for it?
Nolski··on It's time for open source to retire
I do like this idea, more difficult to do without access to the original source code, and I think that this would be more "reverse engineering" rather than cleanrooming, as you don't have the same concerns about copyright violation if you're working from a binary.
Nolski··on It's time for open source to retire
Also on youtube: https://youtu.be/9qEtm2zx314
Nolski··on It's time for open source to retire
It works. It is hooked up to Stripe. You can upload your package.json and receive a fully cleanroomed set of dependencies to use yourself. It is up to you to determine whether this is a compelling product or a warning to those who care about FOSS.