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

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Post by lkbm »

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 search gives me 11 300 results for 5000+ stars[0]. Dunno if they all qualify as open source, but that's also repos, not contributors. Presumably there's an average of > 1 per repo.

NPM probably adds a lot. I can't find any recent sources, but NPM packages get downloaded a lot (e.g., every Github Action run.) And to get such a download, an NPM package just has to be somewhere in the dependency tree, which are famously enormous. (Though many might not be updated in the past 3 months, though.)

[0] https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E5000+sort%3Astars&typ...

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

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Post by lkbm »

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.

I wish more ads offered me $1200 of usage followed by the option to either pay to keep using the product or just stop at no cost.

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

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matheusmoreira wrote: post #77
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.

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

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Post by blitzar »

iberator wrote: post #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 to…

Can I add a line like this to my robots.txt and pick up 1 million $ from each of the Ai companies?

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

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Post by andersmurphy »

sega_sai wrote: post #15

5000 stars. That's an interesting threshold. I've checked and astropy -- the main python module used by pretty much every python user in astrophysics has 5100 stars. I would guess almost no open source code in science would pass the threshold. EDIT: Just another test, one of the most used codes in astro -- an ensemble Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo sampler https://github.com/dfm/emcee has 1600 stars. It just shows the 5000…

On the bright side it means mostly JS/TS libraries will get slopified (as they tend to have the most stars thanks to ecosystem size). Small mercies.

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

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Post by univrsal »

mostlyk wrote: post #65
stavros wrote: post #10

I like what GitHub and Jetbrains are doing, where you get Copilot and PyCharm for free as long as you're a maintainer. They keep renewing my license. A 6-month trial isn't showing appreciation for OSS any more than "first crack hit's free" is showing appreciation for what a good person you are. It's just "you look like a promising customer".

what's the Github program here?

Github gives Copilot Pro to open source maintainers but they don't really tell you what the requirements are. I have it and I just get a notification every month that it's been renewed and I never even applied for it. I assume it's a combination of activity on github and popularity of your repositories.

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

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Post by Balinares »

theptip wrote: post #78
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.

Ugly may be a strong word, but upon reading the title, the first thought that came to me was that they'd done some self-examination and decided to finally do the ethical thing about all the open source training data without which their proprietary product would plain and simply not exist.

In comparison, a program that grants time-limited credits to a few high-visibility projects reads like a self-serving marketing move no matter how you slice it.

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

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Post by FiberBundle »

I'm kind of sceptical about the altruistic motives here. Giving this to open source maintainers also solves the problem of identifying high quality feedback/rewards for their rlvr models. With everybody using Claude code it might be difficult for them to find a robust way to tell apart good reward signal from mediocre or below average feedback.
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