On the one hand, hooray for half a million dollars for the hardworking folks "down in the trenches" who seldom receive the appreciation or remuneration they so

On the one hand, hooray for half a million dollars for the hardworking folks "down in the trenches" who seldom receive the appreciation or remuneration they so richly deserve. Hoorah! On the other hand, this does nothing for me as a Free software fanatic to make Github and Microsoft any more palatable. I still can't believe that a closed, proprietary centralized webapp has so completely co-opted both the git DCVS and FOSS itself. (I've heard people unironically call Github the "flagship of the FOSS movement".) The image I get is of the boss riding by in a gilded carriage casting handfuls of gold coins to the serfs. Some of the comments here are of the "shut up and be grateful" ilk, and some even try to shame people for not being sufficiently grateful and/or uncritical. I call BS on that. If Github/MS find themselves in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation in re: supporting FOSS maintainers it's only because of their own actions and history. If they really wanted to thank FOSS folks they could open source Github, eh? Or Windows.