Arguably massive altruism by GitHub, yes - although equally the cost savings and benefits of the resulting software to an entire ecosystem of technology compani

Arguably massive altruism by GitHub, yes - although equally the cost savings and benefits of the resulting software to an entire ecosystem of technology companies probably dwarf the GHA spend here. It also makes me curious: how does the spend on test and build infrastructure compare to the compensation that developers (in aggregate or individually) receive for working on these projects? (something is deeply, deeply weird about the economics of open source software, and I think we're likely to add more layers -- like sponsorship and free compute time -- before we eventually unpack it all and figure out what was really going on from first-principles)