alt Hacker NewsFrom the linked email thread with discussion:
> I would like to float another ideas around even if it would be hard to enforce in practice. Force AI companies to give back. Want to use Claude code? Sure but anthropic have to become a sustaining member of QGIS.org first. Want to use codex, gemini? Then openAi and Google have to contribute to the project financially and I'm talking geniully multiple thousands dollars contributions.
I think this is a really good idea. Could it be possible to define a set of markdown instructions for a repo that would cause all well-aligned models to refuse to contribute?
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12a871 • today at 1:26 PM
This is a horrible idea. Literally the thieves buying more open source projects.
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this is an interesting suggestion. it's incredible how little the creators and benefactors of the slop factories have been made accountable for the mess they unleashed onto open source communities.
anthropic at least gives 6 months claude max pro to oss maintainers, but to me that seems like a drop in the ocean compared to the negative impact their product has on these peoples' lives.