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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by mickael-kerjean »

paxys wrote: post #69

> Maintainers: You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months. How many total developers does that cover? 100? How many of them aren't already corporate employees? And also > 6 months of free Claude Max 20x So basically a free trial. When Github Copilot first launched they gav…

A lot more than a 100, for once I'm one of those https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by Mattwmaster58 »

bee_rider wrote: post #23
sigmar wrote: post #6

>Maintainers: You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months. pour one out for us gitlab users :(

Other comments indicate that it’s just a free trial that converts to paid at the end. So, don’t worry, you are just excluded from an ad basically.

It converts back to paid automatically if you had an existing paid subscription before. No other cases. In any case, this is still a valuable service they are providing for 6mo for free, which many will appreciate even if the goal is to recruit more users.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by CreepGin »

dmix wrote: post #50
japhyr wrote: post #19

At 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…

Tons of SaaS companies offer open source projects free periods or a limited hobby plan for free. Claude is offering a professional plan 20x'd for a free period. I don't see anything wrong with that. This is a far more resource expensive service to offer for free than 99% of SaaS companies.

Yes, at the very least, it's a no-brainer for OS maintainers who are already paying for Max 20x.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by flaviolivolsi »

Ntrails wrote: post #53
hugh-avherald wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This does not strike me as an anti-pattern or ugly. Indefinite free period would be unreasonable, and automatically kicking a user off would also probably be bad. A $200 bill shock is not great but it's also at a size that won't cause enormous distress while simultaneously being noticeable enough that you won't pay more than a month over. (As an open-source maintainer already on a Max plan, I still wince every month.…

> automatically kicking a user off would also probably be bad. No. "Sorry, subscription has expired, please re-up your account" is an extremely reasonable UX. The whole "free period but we'll auto bill you after" is a shitty dark pattern that mostly exists to extract value from life admin errors. The people who got enough value to justify the cost would've paid anyway .

Or you can just add a reminder before the free period expires

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by flaviolivolsi »

paxys wrote: post #69

> Maintainers: You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months. How many total developers does that cover? 100? How many of them aren't already corporate employees? And also > 6 months of free Claude Max 20x So basically a free trial. When Github Copilot first launched they gav…

Github is Microsoft. MS has a war chest big enough not to care if they throw away money for customer acquisition

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by jefftk »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #26
isodev wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Number of stars also excludes self hosted forges. Stars is more of a GitHub-wants-to-be-a-social thing than actual measure of popularity.

Yeah, I was going to come here to say this. Apart from a) stars are a dubious metric b) 5000 stars is an insanely high bar, there is the issue that there are definitely lots of projects that choose not to partake in GitHub at this point. That said, they do have a "contact us" line in there which implies some flexibility.

It also strongly favors older projects, since stars don't expire and they've had longer to accumulate them.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by matheusmoreira »

bicx wrote: post #4

Considering they trained their model on open-source software, the least they could do is give it to open-source maintainers for free with no time limit. I’m sure they can come up with other ways to prevent abuse. This 6-months-free move just adds insult to injury, like it’s just a move to extract more from those who involuntarily contributed to the training already. And that’s coming from me, a Claude Code fan.

The double standards are so obnoxious. Corporations bent over backwards to lobby intellectual property into law, then they invent AI and suddenly everything turns into fair use.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by theptip »

japhyr wrote: post #19

At 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.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by Hamuko »

deckar01 wrote: post #21

If you appreciate open source maintainers, detect when users are opening pull requests without human review and stop them. Feel free to keep burning their tokens, just stop making pull requests.

Yeah, I think a lot of open-source maintainers would rather have some kind of an anti-slop filter than a six-month trial. All of my GitHub projects are tiny so I haven't had to encounter it, but I've heard that some projects are absolutely swamped in crap.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by Volundr »

paxys wrote: post #69

> Maintainers: You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months. How many total developers does that cover? 100? How many of them aren't already corporate employees? And also > 6 months of free Claude Max 20x So basically a free trial. When Github Copilot first launched they gav…

GitHub is cagey about the criteria, but yes this is ongoing. It doesn't appear to be tied to active contributions though. I'm a maintainer on paper of a moderately large open source project that I haven't been involved with in years, and they still renew my free copilot monthly.
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