I believe that tradition was started in 2006 when Microsoft send Firefox dev team a cake https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-mozilla-send-

I believe that tradition was started in 2006 when Microsoft send Firefox dev team a cake https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-mozilla-send-each-other-cakes-after-launching-browsers-528960.shtml https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-moz... Like others mentioned, this story seems to be reference to Gitpod sending GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces. https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake