At least you think that this is satire, until the author receives a DMCA from one of the big corps saying that he leaked the transcript of their last meeting

Yeah, thank you. I was starting to get a little heated.

Too late. Someone's senior executive management has probably already seen it and spinning up a new project to implement it.

The situation is a bit too Torment Nexus-y for my comfort, thank you very much

W.r.t. intent, yes. But w.r.t. content, we are long past a situation where it is unrealistic enough to function as satire.

While such tactics would render certain OSS software licenses absurd, the tactic itself, as a means to get around them, is entirely sound. It just reveals the flawed presupposition of such licenses. And I'm not sure there is really any way to patch them up now.

For now

Thank you for pointing that out, I genuinely was scratching my head and questioning if this site was serious.

For now...

I was wondering. I had heard chardet story and wouldn't be surprised to see others moving into that same space.