Re: Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open So urce program

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 12:19=E2=80=AFPM Carlos O'Donell <[email protected]> =
wrote:

> Developers,
>
> Anthropic is generously offering 6 months of Claude Max 20x to Free and
> Open
> Source Software projects to support the FOSS ecosystem. These tools can b=
e
> incredibly helpful with reviewing upstream code, evaluating the
> conformance of
> a particular interface to a standard, or just for your own learning and
> exploring the implementation of the project or subsystem.
>
> If you are an established, active contributor to the GNU Toolchain and ar=
e
> interested in having access to Claude Max 20x under Anthropic=E2=80=99s C=
laude for
> Open
> Source program, please respond to this email thread with a short
> description of
> how you would utilize the access and the potential impact on the GNU
> Toolchain.
> The program's slots are limited and David Edelsohn and I plan to review t=
he
> proposals. Please keep in mind that these are individual grants from
> Anthropic
> to you personally. If you are approved you=E2=80=99ll get an email from A=
nthropic
> with
> further instructions.
>
> While the current GNU Project policy is not to accept LLM-generated
> content in
> the projects, that still leaves other uses like bug triage, patch review,
> and
> research as ways to use these tools.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>
> P.S. This is not an endorsement of Anthropic, Claude or LLMs. We dislike
> having to say it, but please don=E2=80=99t use this thread as a platform =
to express
> your personal opinions about the companies or about AI=E2=80=99s impact o=
n the
> world.
>

Dont send out emails like this in the first place then.

Also note coverity has been offering similar services for code coverage and
static analysis for years now. But there was no notice like that sent out
for this. Why try to push llm when static analysis does the same?




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<div dir=3D"auto"><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_contai=
ner"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 12:19=E2=
=80=AFPM Carlos O&#39;Donell &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">carlo=
[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" styl=
e=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Develop=
ers,<br>
<br>
Anthropic is generously offering 6 months of Claude Max 20x to Free and Ope=
n<br>
Source Software projects to support the FOSS ecosystem. These tools can be<=
br>
incredibly helpful with reviewing upstream code, evaluating the conformance=
 of<br>
a particular interface to a standard, or just for your own learning and<br>
exploring the implementation of the project or subsystem.<br>
<br>
If you are an established, active contributor to the GNU Toolchain and are<=
br>
interested in having access to Claude Max 20x under Anthropic=E2=80=99s Cla=
ude for Open<br>
Source program, please respond to this email thread with a short descriptio=
n of<br>
how you would utilize the access and the potential impact on the GNU Toolch=
ain.<br>
The program&#39;s slots are limited and David Edelsohn and I plan to review=
 the<br>
proposals. Please keep in mind that these are individual grants from Anthro=
pic<br>
to you personally. If you are approved you=E2=80=99ll get an email from Ant=
hropic with<br>
further instructions.<br>
<br>
While the current GNU Project policy is not to accept LLM-generated content=
 in<br>
the projects, that still leaves other uses like bug triage, patch review, a=
nd<br>
research as ways to use these tools.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Cheers,<br>
Carlos.<br>
<br>
P.S. This is not an endorsement of Anthropic, Claude or LLMs. We dislike<br=
>
having to say it, but please don=E2=80=99t use this thread as a platform to=
 express<br>
your personal opinions about the companies or about AI=E2=80=99s impact on =
the world.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=
=3D"auto">Dont send out emails like this in the first place then.</div><div=
 dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Also note coverity has been offer=
ing similar services for code coverage and static analysis for years now. B=
ut there was no notice like that sent out for this. Why try to push llm whe=
n static analysis does the same?</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=
=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><div clas=
s=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" s=
tyle=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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