Github "Frantically clawing for control of developers", "vying for government rent-seeking and free market capital"? ...We must be experiencing very different

Github "Frantically clawing for control of developers", "vying for government rent-seeking and free market capital"? ...We must be experiencing very different versions of reality. Usually I sort-of get where people are coming from, even when I disagree. Here, I couldn't even name anything Github is doing that would support these statements. What power do they have, except being a useful product?