[nickjj]

It's weird to make it 6 months only because it sends a message of, "Thank you for dedicating 5-10+ years building up a very popular open source project. In return we believe this is worth exactly $1,200 (6 x $200) in credits". Especially since they are scraping all of our work and profiting from it directly without acknowledgement or compensation -- past, present and future indefinitely.

[upmind]

Yep agreed, this isn't a nice thing they're doing, it's just a ploy for more customers. Shame.

[marcandre]

I don't get these negative comments for them giving free credits. Either it's "Not many people fit these criteria" or "A ploy for more customers". It can't be both, and I believe it's neither. It's a nice gesture, in line with Github Copilot and JetBrains. Disclosure: I have free Copilot and just applied for 20x Pro.

[elxr]

This isn't anymore of a "ploy" then releasing new features for claude code, or acquiring bun, or any other random improvement or promotion that essentially boils down to offering more value to claude users.

All the big LLM labs do promos constantly. Sure, this one's on the stingy side considering the amount of work OSS maintainers just give out, but there's nothing wrong with promotions.