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▲ toomuchtodo 3 days ago

Trying to minimize obligations on their financials. It’s good practice and likely due to them attempting to IPO.

▲PostOnce 3 days ago | parent [-]

Setting morals aside, for it to be good financial practice, it has to be determined whether or not it impacts the financials, right?

If 100% of their customers abandoned them December 7th because they did not like the idea, then it would be bad practice from a financial perspective.

Business is not unilateral, despite what many corporations apparently believe.

▲toomuchtodo 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It’s not a moral question at all. They’re credits, they expire, choose to continue to do business with them or not. They don’t owe anyone forever credits.

▲PostOnce a day ago | parent [-]

It costs nothing to maintain the credits, and in fact, the cost of providing the service the credits are for goes down over time (as inference speeds increase).

It is arguable that taking money for a service and then not providing it is immoral and unethical.

▲shoo a day ago | parent [-]

Credits that don't expire absolutely cost something -- it makes the financials look worse.

See backprop1989's comment [1] from when this topic was discussed in august 2025:

> Accounting rules. If the credits last indefinitely, any unused credits cannot be counted as revenue. Ran into this at my last company when we signed a big contract and gave them hundreds of thousands of dollars in non-expiring credits. Our accountant went nuts when we told him.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793827

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