[simonw]

> These companies stole your, free, hard work and charge you a subscription!!

In case you weren't aware, Anthropic, OpenAI and GitHub Copilot all have programs that provide access to open source maintainers for free:

GitHub: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-on-github...

Anthropic: https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss

OpenAI: https://developers.openai.com/community/codex-for-oss

[yencabulator]

> The Claude for Open Source Program is our way of saying thank you for all your hard work, with 6 months of free Claude Max 20x. Apply now.

> Six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex for day-to-day coding, triage, review, and maintainer workflows

Those are free trials pending their approval in hopes of more paying customers, nothing more.

[andriy_koval]

Was there comprehensive survey amongst maintainers that its fair price for decades of hard work?