Good lord, what the fuck is wrong with these companies if they think this is a good thing? They are completely divorced from public opinion that rightfully hates them.

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bpavuk 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

this is obviously a way to try and get someone hooked, younger people and nonprofits alike. much like their Claude for Open-Source program, which gives a one-time 6-month Claude Max credit for maintainers of some super-popular open-source projects.

for reference, I've been using JetBrains All Products Pack and spent substantial amount in IDEs available under free non-commercial license, such as Rider and RustRover. if RustRover made things worse and I fell back to rustacean.vim, Rider and its ReSharper backend is fucking black magic and I swear I will outright refuse an employer who bans Rider and Visual Studio ReSharper extensions.

another theory: Adobe didn't hunt down pirates much because piracy bred new professionals whose companies would just have to pay for Creative Cloud.

	▲	thewebguyd 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Adobe didn't hunt down pirates much because piracy bred new professionals whose companies would just have to pay for Creative Cloud. Wouldn't surprise me. Microsoft had the same attitude for pirating Windows. Bill Gates said > Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade Adobe figured out how to collect once they went subscription only.

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kordlessagain 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If that makes you angry, you should read: https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential. They are literally telling users what they need to do.

Anthropic can take their system cards and shove them up their ass in my opinion.