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theptiptoday at 4:26 PM1 replyview on HN

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.


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Balinarestoday at 5:30 PM

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.