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Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscript... by rovr138 on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:56AM (#46555175)
They could open source and not take contributions fwiw.

They could close the issues and only allow discussions.

There was a project mentioned here recently that did just that.

*Edit

It was Ghostty,

"Why users cannot create Issues directly" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319

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Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscript... by joelwilliamson on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:54PM (#46556733)
They could open source it and not even have a Github project associated. Just provide a read-only git repo on anthropic.com or drop a source tarball every release.
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Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscript... by hxugufjfjf on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:15PM (#46557885)
Then a ton of vibe-coded Claude Code forks out of their control would pop up on GitHub and people would be even more frustrated at Anthropic for not fixing their issues.
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