Re: Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program

[Alexandre Oliva via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On Jun 12, 2026, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> Anthropic is generously offering 6 months of Claude Max 20x to Free and Open
> Source Software projects to support the FOSS ecosystem.

You seem to have mispelled "poison" as "support".

I'd rather not contribute to this advertisement campaign for dis-SaaSS.
IMHO it doesn't belong in our communication channels.  At all.  It's an
embarrassment.

That said, since the harm is already done, I feel a duty to volunteer to
use up one of the available slots.

I have no intent whatsoever of using it.  I probably wouldn't be able to
as much as activate it anyway, as I'm sure it would involve some nonfree
software, in addition to SaaSS.

My purpose in applying for it is to spare someone else from being baited
into becoming a victim of this attack on our freedoms and on our ability
to think autonomously, and while at that to spare our tools from a
little additional pollution by these dis-services that would otherwise
likely take place.

I encourage others to apply with similar purposes, to defend our
freedom-loving communities from this attack aided by insiders.  Some
might wish to disguise their applications, to increase their odds of
going through.  This is self-defense against an unethical attack.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker            https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/
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