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A dry, uneasy look at open source copycat economics and the ethics of clean room rebuilds.
Python Bytes spends much of the episode on an unusual NPM pricing experiment tied to unpacked size, then uses that as a springboard into open source, clean room rebuilds, and the line where inspiration starts to look like theft.
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