I can't believe that people can't simply accept gifts.
Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ugly is subjective. I'd happily accept these terms
My calendar is littered with the occasional "Cancel Wired subscription", "Cancel Amazon Unlimited", "Cancel Fitbit premium". This is a standard promotional offer, and it's trivial to not get bitten by it. We have the technology to set reminders for future dates.
It's not trivial for me. All my life I've struggled to attend to scheduled events that are not regularly recurring. I've missed midterm exams in college. I've missed band gigs I was scheduled to play in. I've accidentally stood people up in social outings. I've missed credit card payments. (solved that one with auto-pay) I have calendars and email accounts, and they usually work, but sometimes I miss the notification or forget to check the calendar.
For me, if I was going to plan to cancel something in the future, then instead of scheduling it, I'd just do it now before the thought goes out of my head.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#143> You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. I've been an open source maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects in the world[1], and it wouldn't fill any of these requirements. Anybody else hates it that now "open source" is conflated with Github (a private company, itself not open source) popularity? [1]: https://www.openstack.o…
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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#144Is this what it feels like to be slapped by an LLM?
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#145At first I thought people here were being pretty unsympathetic to an early version of a beneficial program. I could see a company setting a 6-month timeline initially, so they can reevaluate the program and choose how to evolve their support for open source. I expected to see something along the lines of, "at the end of the 6 months we'll evaluate whether to continue your free plan." But no, they're quite explicit ab…
It’s baffling to me that you can frame a $1200 gift to FOSS projects as “ugly”. I think it’s reasonable to grant humans agency. If they don’t want it they don’t have to take it. It’s pretty obviously a huge net positive.
What baffles to me is the people who think that "gifts" should never be criticized.
I mean, suppose Adobe decides to gift "$1200" value in Adobe products/subscriptions to all subscribers of the gimp-users mailing list. Can I criticize that?
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a spectrum, right? It would be showing greater higher quality appreciation to offer an ongoing benefit. But there is some benefit to giving maintainers a generous trial length with your offering. 6 months is certainly long enough to see how well it does or does not incorporate into your project. It just so happens we almost all universally love the offering.
> But there is some benefit to giving maintainers a generous trial length with your offering. 6 months is certainly long enough to see how well it does or does not incorporate into your project. This would be fine in the context of a general sales pitch/marketing deal. But OSS development and maintenance is special here. It has a budget of $0. As a sales strategy, Anthropic would be better off trying to sell luxury g…
That's a very compelling argument, I see what you mean. It is an attempt to raise the budget bar for OSS -- We do not want that.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#147It's weird to make it 6 months only because it sends a message of, "Thank you for dedicating 5-10+ years building up a very popular open source project. In return we believe this is worth exactly $1,200 (6 x $200) in credits". Especially since they are scraping all of our work and profiting from it directly without acknowledgement or compensation -- past, present and future indefinitely.
Yep agreed, this isn't a nice thing they're doing, it's just a ploy for more customers. Shame.
I don't get these negative comments for them giving free credits. Either it's "Not many people fit these criteria" or "A ploy for more customers". It can't be both, and I believe it's neither. It's a nice gesture, in line with Github Copilot and JetBrains. Disclosure: I have free Copilot and just applied for 20x Pro.
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#148Made a mistake reading this thread on Safari where I don't have the usual suspects blocked. Some guy read that this converts to paid and then a bunch of people just kept repeating it. A real lesson in how many people are simply repeating things without knowing anything.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s baffling to me that you can frame a $1200 gift to FOSS projects as “ugly”. I think it’s reasonable to grant humans agency. If they don’t want it they don’t have to take it. It’s pretty obviously a huge net positive.
What baffles to me is the people who think that "gifts" should never be criticized. I mean, suppose Adobe decides to gift "$1200" value in Adobe products/subscriptions to all subscribers of the gimp-users mailing list. Can I criticize that?
What would you find deserving to be criticized about such a gift?
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#150At first I thought people here were being pretty unsympathetic to an early version of a beneficial program. I could see a company setting a 6-month timeline initially, so they can reevaluate the program and choose how to evolve their support for open source. I expected to see something along the lines of, "at the end of the 6 months we'll evaluate whether to continue your free plan." But no, they're quite explicit ab…
It is disgusting. I just use "fake" credit cards from online services to end-around this. Obnoxious for sure, but it saves me the headache of tracking this kind of shit.