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).
Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#82> 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
#83At 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
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#84Open 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.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#85Earlier 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.
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#86Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#87Sad 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
#88Sad 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> 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…
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#90Open 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.