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Comment by pton_xd

7 days ago

I do admit to feeling some schadenfreude over them reacting to their product being leeched by others.

I get it though, Anthropic has to protect their investment in their work. They are in a position to do that, whereas most of us are not.

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Aurornis  7 days ago

They’re not literally blocking OpenCode. You can use OpenCode with their API like any other tool.

They’ve blocked the workaround OpenCode was using to access a private API that was metered differently.

Any tool that used that private endpoint would be blocked. They’re not pushing an agenda. They’re just enforcing their API terms like they would for any use.

  • throwaway290  7 days ago

    after they exploited us by training without any limits on code without licensing it (including GPLed code) they now scramble to ban and restrict when we want to do the same to them. that's the schadenfreude...

dsfiof  7 days ago

Hey! It was a lot of work stealing everything from you, of course you have to pay me a premium to get access to it!

anon373839  7 days ago

> protect their investment

Viewed another way, the preferential pricing they're giving to Claude Code (and only Claude Code) is anticompetitive behavior that may be illegal.

  • Aurornis  7 days ago

    This is a misunderstanding of the regulations.

    They’re not obligated to give other companies access to their services at a discounted rate.

    • gpm  7 days ago

      They may however be obligated to not give customers access to their services at a discounted rate either - predatory pricing is at least some of the time and in some jurisdictions illegal.

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  • nebezb  7 days ago

    Are you suggesting Anthropic has a “duty to deal” with anyone who is trying to build competitive products to Claude Code, beyond access to their priced API? I don’t think so. Especially not to a product that’s been breaking ToS.

    • eli  7 days ago

      No, but I think they should. Or anti-trust was enforced through some other means. Or at all really.

      Citing the ToS is circular logic. They set the terms and can change them whenever they want!

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    • no-name-here  3 days ago

      Do other companies have a similar "duty to deal" - for example, if Microsoft or Apple ToS forbid use of open source software with their software? Or if VS Code ToS forbid people from using VS Code to work on a competitor?

piskov  7 days ago

Seems like another donation to python is coming to mitigate this pr scandal