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I’m not seeing the open source connection at all? Anthropic sells a service that bundles server and client. They are not wild about people taking their server
by brookst 7mo ago
I’m not seeing the open source connection at all?
Anthropic sells a service that bundles server and client. They are not wild about people taking their server part and using their own clients because the business model relies on both client behaviors (Claude code does a lot of work to achieve > 95% cache hit rates; third party clients likely don’t) and flywheel of usage data.
If Microsoft went after third party clients that emulated M365 and used their backend, would that also “make friends” in open source somehow?
- pixl97 7mo agoI mean, Microsoft started out by 'not making friends' in open source at the start. Then migrated to the embrace, extend, extinguish days. The current Microsoft is rather friendly towards open source compared to those days. Typically services that try to gatekeep standard http don't get very far with the kind of people that like to modify their software.
- achompas 7mo agoThis is both true and immaterial to Microsoft’s net profits.
- chasil 7mo agoMicrosoft actually started with Xenix, which did not have a particularly hostile stance at the time. They were the largest commercial Unix vendor of the early 1980s, and their largest platform was the TRS-80 Model 2. The cutthroat hostility didn't start until the DEC people arrived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix