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

#81
That's nice.

It also makes sense to give tools for open source developers. Sometimes we need to test compatibility (does my repo play nice with that harness/ide/etc?). This in turn makes that repo be more solid for the paid tool, which is a potential way of attracting users for both. It has been done by others (like JetBrains IDEs).

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

#82
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

Yeah, their thing is more making products worse over time and wasting billions. You will see this in action shortly with XBox. I think they will do both this time.

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

#83
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…

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.

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

#85
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So put a reminder on your calendar to cancel. It's not hard. That shouldn't be a reason to pass this up.

Someone in my hoa association recently failed to pay their dues. Why? Because they were in the hospital for several weeks.

What % of the time do you think that failure mode comes up?

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

#87
Now suddenly everyone's gonna become a 'maintainer'. People are gonna abuse it and just use it for everything else BUT proper(not fake and AI GENERATED) open source projects.

Sad day. I hope so they are gonna change the TOS and punish anyone with a 1 million $ fine if someone lies.

That's the only way: criminal charges for students using AI(when forbidden such as academia) and people who plan to abuse it (stealing tokens against TOS).

it's impossible to compete with cheaters and with cheaters who stole money

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

#88
Now suddenly everyone's gonna become a 'maintainer'. People are gonna abuse it and just use it for everything else BUT proper(not fake and AI GENERATED) open source projects.

Sad day. I hope so they are gonna change the TOS and punish anyone with a 1 million $ fine if someone lies.

That's the only way: criminal charges for students using AI(when forbidden such as academia) and people who plan to abuse it (stealing tokens against TOS).

it's impossible to compete with cheaters and with cheaters who stole moneyl

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

#89
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…

I think there's plenty of them. I know at least 3 guys eligible for such requirements (but this guys aren't some public persons giving tech-talks and so on, just some niche libs for others to use). If Claude would ask for 100k stars repos, then yeah. I guess there would be even less than 100

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

#90

Open source developers should be paid for their efforts, and for their contributions to LLM models, past, present, and future, rather than be enticed into paying to participate six months down the road.

OSS developers driven by something else than just money I believe. They are proud of their work of giving something to the community with their name on it. So such respect as giving free subscription to them I think matters, as they were mentioned and respected.
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