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Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

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Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#32

Post by Aerroon »

extr wrote: post #18

The OpenCode guys have really surprised me in the way they've reacted to Anthropic shutting down the side-loaded auth scheme. Very petty and bitter. It's clearly just a business decision from Anthropic and a rational one at that, usage subsidization to keep people on the first party product surface is practically the oldest business move in the book and is completely valid.

>usage subsidization

Is this actually the case though? Because I can't imagine what kind of hardware they're running to have costs per 1M tokens be above like $3.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#33

Post by noemit »

mellosouls wrote: post #2

This and threatening OpenClaw (now at OpenAI), Anthropic really on a roll making friends in Open Source. Previously discussed I think: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode (173 points, 157 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46625918

Dario has stated multiple times he doesn't believe there is any value in open-weight models. Not surprised. This is not the behavior of an innovative company - it is fear-driven. They are seeing a rapidly shrinking moat.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#34

Post by ipsum2 »

extr wrote: post #18

The OpenCode guys have really surprised me in the way they've reacted to Anthropic shutting down the side-loaded auth scheme. Very petty and bitter. It's clearly just a business decision from Anthropic and a rational one at that, usage subsidization to keep people on the first party product surface is practically the oldest business move in the book and is completely valid.

This seems like pure misinformation. The code lines that are actually changed:

              hint: {
                opencode: "recommended",
                -anthropic: "API key",
                openai: "ChatGPT Plus/Pro or API key",
              }[x.id],
They're removing the ability to use OpenCode via Anthropic API key

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#35

Post by raincole »

extr wrote: post #18

The OpenCode guys have really surprised me in the way they've reacted to Anthropic shutting down the side-loaded auth scheme. Very petty and bitter. It's clearly just a business decision from Anthropic and a rational one at that, usage subsidization to keep people on the first party product surface is practically the oldest business move in the book and is completely valid.

What exactly are you referring to?

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#36

Post by zozbot234 »

valunord wrote: post #19

This wouldn't be so bad if they didn't have such a sucky tui or ecosystem. AI is chef's kiss, tooling is bottom barrel.

Not really, GPT 5.4 is a great alternative. There's no real loss from using that over Claude Opus. And open models are quite close behind.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#38

Post by brookst »

mellosouls wrote: post #2

This and threatening OpenClaw (now at OpenAI), Anthropic really on a roll making friends in Open Source. Previously discussed I think: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode (173 points, 157 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46625918

I’m not seeing the open source connection at all?

Anthropic sells a service that bundles server and client. They are not wild about people taking their server part and using their own clients because the business model relies on both client behaviors (Claude code does a lot of work to achieve > 95% cache hit rates; third party clients likely don’t) and flywheel of usage data.

If Microsoft went after third party clients that emulated M365 and used their backend, would that also “make friends” in open source somehow?

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#39

Post by paxys »

droidjj wrote: post #30

It's not clear what exactly the "legal action" is based on this github link. My pure speculation is Anthropic's lawyers have come up with a liability story boiling down to OpenCode helping end users violate the Anthropic ToS (i.e. tortious interference with contract).

A vaguely threatening letter is usually all it takes
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