Comment by pella
3 days ago
> "For me personally, I have decided I will never be an Anthropic customer, because I refuse to do business with a company that takes its customers for granted."
The best pressure on companies comes from viable alternatives, not from boycotts that leave you without tools altogether.
The context is here that Anthropic tried to suppress alternatives. Boycott works here because there are alternatives, like writer addressed.
If "never" means never, you are not leverage, you are just gone.
"Just gone" is the biggest leverage against business? Note that boycott is usually conditional. If they change things, the customer might come back.
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