On Jun 12, 2026, David Edelsohn <[email protected]> wrote: > Anthropic is generously offering 6 months of Claude Max 20x to Free and Open > Source Software projects to support the FOSS ecosystem.
You seem to have mispelled "poison" as "support". I'd rather not contribute to this advertisement campaign for dis-SaaSS. IMHO it doesn't belong in our communication channels. At all. It's an embarrassment. That said, since the harm is already done, I feel a duty to volunteer to use up one of the available slots. I have no intent whatsoever of using it. I probably wouldn't be able to as much as activate it anyway, as I'm sure it would involve some nonfree software, in addition to SaaSS. My purpose in applying for it is to spare someone else from being baited into becoming a victim of this attack on our freedoms and on our ability to think autonomously, and while at that to spare our tools from a little additional pollution by these dis-services that would otherwise likely take place. I encourage others to apply with similar purposes, to defend our freedom-loving communities from this attack aided by insiders. Some might wish to disguise their applications, to increase their odds of going through. This is self-defense against an unethical attack. I posted a similar response to an identical advertisement posted to the glibc list. I am applying for two slots, one for GCC, one for glibc. If that's ok, I'd like to apply for one for binutils and one for GDB as well. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/ Free Software Activist FSFLA co-founder GNU Toolchain Engineer Learn the truth about Richard Stallman at https://stallmansupport.org/
