Simon Willison • 3/12/2026

MALUS - Clean Room as a Service

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A satirical blog post from 2026 presents 'MALUS - Clean Room as a Service,' a fictional service using proprietary AI to recreate open source projects from scratch to produce 'legally distinct' code with corporate-friendly licensing, mocking license-washing trends in the tech industry.

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