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OccupySaaS - "They laid us off. We're rebuilding their SaaS" (occupysaas.com)
submitted 1 day ago by new_otters_raft@piefed.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I saw some discussion about this elsewhere. Here is how the project describes itself:

OccupySaaS is a protest movement in code: laid-off developers building clean-room, open-source, drop-in replacements for the SaaS giants. First up: ZeroAuthy (Auth0) and SalesCompel (Salesforce).

In 2011, Occupy Wall Street asked who the economy was really working for. In 2026 we're asking the same question about the cloud. The tools every company runs on are now toll booths — and the people who built them were shown the door.

Two towers occupied.

Identity and CRM: the two subscriptions almost every company pays for and almost nobody loves. ZeroAuthy has shipped its first release candidate, SalesCompel is still early, and both welcome contributors today.

Who's next?

Every category on this board is a monthly invoice somewhere. The movement picks the next target in public — bring a spec, a use case, or a grudge.

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[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Can you really call it clean room when you don't know exactly what the ai was trained on? There's gotta be some ghidra decomp of these programs in the big providers' training data.

[–] andicraft@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

for real, licensewashing the code through an llm doesn't make it different code

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For any court to find these are not black box implementations would also require them to find that the AI companies are stealing.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 1 points 13 hours ago

Surely there must be some established legal precedent here