Yes and if I were to guess a lot of folks who are upset about copilot stealing and selling code don't have GitHub sponsors enabled so it feels not genuine. It r

Yes and if I were to guess a lot of folks who are upset about copilot stealing and selling code don't have GitHub sponsors enabled so it feels not genuine. It reads more like "here's a friendly reminder that you can make money with open source as long as you enable GitHub sponsors which btw will make us money too[0]!". [0]: Organizations will have at least a 10% fee taken from GitHub once the beta is finished. There's also no guarantee that personal accounts will remain fee-less too, this could easily be "just another" spot where a company offers something for free for mass adoption and then charges for it later. In any case it's marketing for a feature that provides revenue to GitHub.