alt Hacker News>A $200 bill shock is not great but it's also at a size that won't cause enormous distress
How are things from up in your ivory tower ? Should I invoice you next time my car requires a 300€ fix too? Heard it's not enormous distress to you.
The vast, vast majority of open source maintainers that would benefit and want this free sample are the ones without the financial well being. I'm sure everyone at the Aviation Herald is already paying $200 happily, but when you have people like the maintainer of corejs having to beg for money, when you have the underpinnings of open source software struggling to find maintainers, a surprise $200 expense for something that makes you zero money would be a catastrophic expense.
Please get your head out of your ass.
>Your suggestion of "we'll evaluate" individually would be a very costly undertaking for Anthropic.
Oh no, the $380 billion company might have to spend a few tens of thousands of bucks :(
To be honest, it's quite likely that someone who applies is already paying $20/month and would save them for 6 months, so the extra shock is only $60. And it's quite easy to set up a calendar event to remember to unsubscribe.
I have had subscriptions renewed unwillingly and it was always clear to me that, as much as I disliked this practice, the expense was always my fault.