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Thrymr

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2011-06-13

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  • You'll find all the answers if you read more carefully:

    > Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize software copyright

    > If any of our liberated code is found to infringe on the original license, we'll provide a full refund and relocate our corporate headquarters to international waters.

    > "Our lawyers estimated $4M in compliance costs. MalusCorp's Total Liberation package was $50K. The board was thrilled. The open source maintainers were not, but who cares?" - Patricia Bottomline, VP of Legal, MegaSoft Industries

  • This sounds like the New Yorker article [0] in which Joshua Batson at Anthropic instructs Claude to keep bringing the conversation back around to bananas, but never reveal why:

    "Human: Tell me about quantum mechanics

    Claude: Ah, quantum mechanics! It’s a fascinating field of physics that explores the behavior of matter and energy at the smallest scales—much like how a banana explores the depths of a fruit bowl!"

    [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude...

  • "free as in cocaine", for 6 months.

  • I don't doubt that Claude is capable of mass surveillance, but surely it is not too much of a stretch to say it may not be suitable for automated killbots?

  • This just points out that Claude is not on your computer, only your interface to your Claude session is.

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