I often get a question about “what do you get as an Open Source maintainer” or “how do you monetize Open Source”. I don’t have simple answer, the shortest one is
It’s a desire — I simply cannot stop contributing and shipping, no reason, no monetary interest
Sometimes OSS maintainers and contributors get invited to various events and venues — that’s always nice. And sometimes like today we get perks for free!
It’s a great initiative by Anthropic and Claude to support OSS maintainers and contributors with 6 months of their TOP plan. Thanks a lot. More frequent updates to my packages and quicker responses to tickets, issues, and PRs are coming.
Other AI dev-tools should follow their example.
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