Comment by 2001zhaozhao
2 days ago
It seems to me that they genuinely are trying to do a good thing. Giving away $200 subs probably will cost more than what they will earn from continued subscriptions, given that the top library authors have an extremely low chance of being gullible consumers who forget to cancel their free trials. They could be aiming for other benefits as well such as generally improving the open-source tools that they depend on as well as getting some well-respected people to talk about how good Claude is, but if they even think that far ahead that's pretty reasonable and commendable behavior.
But it's funny how their methods end up appearing so close to the loss-leader tactics that everyone (including themselves with the double holiday Opus limits and $50 extra usage) is doling out to ultimately selfishly make more money.
It won't need to be cancelled, it won't charge $200 to unwilling customers, don't spread false rumors. They'll even pause whatever plan we already are on and paid for.