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I wonder if this is evenly distributed? $500,000 may seem like a lot but that comes out to about $500 per maintainer. This doesn't appear to be an ongoing subsc
by encryptluks2 4y ago
I wonder if this is evenly distributed? $500,000 may seem like a lot but that comes out to about $500 per maintainer. This doesn't appear to be an ongoing subscription either. I personally would rather Microsoft keep the money and spend it on open sourcing their own products instead of trying to find more ways to exploit others.
- rglullis 4y agoWhynotboth.jpg?
- encryptluks2 4y agoBecause Microsoft is incapable of doing both. They will keep taking more than they give back. I'd rather have someone keep $500 than give it to me so they can go around and brag about it and then later find out they've been using my stuff without my permission because they felt like I owed it to them.
- rglullis 4y agoIf your work is FOSS, they don't "owe" you anything, just like you don't owe anything to them if they decide to support you. And, yes, $500k is relatively nothing for them. But I don't see how "relatively" nothing is better than actually nothing.
- fnord123 4y agoThe context of reselling code is copilot which is of questionable legality. They owe you a copyright header when distributing your BSD or MIT licensed code. They owe you adhering to the GPL license when distributing your GPL licensed code.
- rglullis 4y agoThat is a separate issue, and unless they think that money would be enough to settle any license violations, it has nothing to do with donating some cash to maintainers.
- fnord123 4y agoIt's not a separate issue. It's the issue GP was referring to.
- encryptluks2 4y agoThat is exactly what I was referring to. I wonder if some people are just unfamiliar with copilot licensing issues or they don't see how that is an issue.
- rglullis 4y agoOf course the Copilot thing is problematic and they should not let be off the hook for it, but Copilot is not even referenced in the blog post. My read is that they are giving the money to projects they use to develop GitHub itself. And if this has nothing to do with the Copilot issue, why bring it to the conversation?
- jrochkind1 4y agoWhy are you contributing to open source projects if you don't want people to be able to use your contributions without your permission? You seem to be making a mistake.
- numbsafari 4y agoMicrosoft had over $61 Billion in net income in FY2021. This is 0.0008% of that. They should probably be paying more, not less.
- drstewart 4y agoYep. It's like Bainbridge Health, spun out of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia which had $3 BILLION in revenue in FY2021 and $10 BILLION in assets. How much did Bainbridge Health give to open source health platforms? Hopefully at least .001% of those amounts.
- numbsafari 4y agoYou are comparing revenue to earnings, for one thing. MSFT FY21 Revenue was $168 Billion. They also report having $350 Billion in assets.
- qubyte 4y agoI got $550 so I think it's split evenly (they state it's shared between 900 folk in the blog post, which I assume is rounded). It's a one off as you say. Even if they do this next year, this event will have prompted a lot of folk to set up sponsors, so we'd all get a smaller cut.
- morelisp 4y ago> this event will have prompted a lot of folk to set up sponsors Shh, you're not supposed to explain the trick.