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Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

1241 points • by elmean • yesterday at 2:36 PM • 683 comments • view on HN

https://xcancel.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168

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claudiug • yesterday at 3:39 PM

the most relevant person on this industry Theo - t3.gg /s

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tamimio • yesterday at 3:31 PM

I think that’s an ok move, definitely better than canceling code on pro users for example, I would support to even have a new pricing tier only for openclaw, so they don’t ruin the usage on others. I noticed the ones who use claude code usually are software developers or sysadmins, meanwhile most openclaw ones are your average HR stacy and lazy middle managers, so yeah, it should be a separate tier for them.

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vb-8448 • yesterday at 4:32 PM

So what's next ... they are going to charge you a 30% commission on your sales for products build with their tools?

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agentbc9000 • yesterday at 4:06 PM

openClaw does so muhc more then Claude code tbh, running 9 agents from the one machine, schedual some tasks, add some personal personas for each agent, claudeCode (which i like alot) is on rails, openClaw is full openworld.

rate the analogy plz..

0x500x79 • yesterday at 5:13 PM

I have two comments. One this feels like anti-competitive behavior that should not be accepted or allowed. Two, how can people support this?

There are multiple comments in this thread with comments along the line of: "Oh im sure they didn't mean to, let's not attribute this to malice". There is a long history here of lawyers, back and forth between OpenCode and OpenClaw and various other "Open" harnesses. Digging into my commit history and blocking access based off of a string is not acceptable for a product in my opinion -- and I don't think this was purely on accident.

Other comments calling out that they are compute constrained and need to do this in order to continue functioning. They shouldn't oversell then. I think that overselling airline tickets is abhorrent and so is overselling any product in a way that you know that you will impact legitimate customers. Up your pricing and/or stop accepting invites, we will quickly get to the bottom of it.

A company does not deserve the benefit of the doubt over and over and over again.