Yes, I'm also curious about GitHub's justification for this. It feels like they should have made some sort of statement about why the account was suspended, for

Yes, I'm also curious about GitHub's justification for this. It feels like they should have made some sort of statement about why the account was suspended, for the sake of transparency in such a large controversy. It's perfectly imaginable that Marak used his GitHub account to spam/harass other projects, or engage in some other type of speech that went against GitHub's guidelines, but there needs to be more clarity so that this doesn't seem like a case of "You annoyed me, so you're gone". As you said, it really can give the appearance of GitHub siding with the commercial use of open source for their own self-interest, even if I have enough trust in GitHub to know that that's probably not what they intended to do. EDIT: I'm glad to hear from a sibling comment that GitHub has since unsuspended his account, since TFA and this comment made me think he was still suspended. Still, it feels like a misstep for GitHub not to have made some sort of comment here.