Comment by dotBen
20 hours ago
It's funny how developer time is considered free, but tokens are not.
In other words when it comes to FOSS contribution, developer time can be donated but tokens can't - so as we move into agentic code era all FOSS development carries a cost unless it is purely done by hand (which more often it isn't).
Not saying this is what is going on here but it's presumably a factor if the author was looking for an employer to sponsor development with his labor (and tokens).
https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss open source maintainers can get this.
Chatgpt also has similar https://developers.openai.com/community/codex-for-oss
I don’t understand this? I donate plenty of tokens towards OSS.
I guess it’s anthropic donating the tokens because they give me about $5k of API tokens for the $200 I pay them.
You could also donate money to allow the devs to spend it on tokens, right?