> If all big companies donated $500K a year to open source, that'd be a pretty significant change in the environment, wouldn't it? If those other companies sto

> If all big companies donated $500K a year to open source, that'd be a pretty significant change in the environment, wouldn't it? If those other companies stood to gain as much for $500K spent on marketing, they'd be doing it too. GitHub isn't somehow more benevolent than all the others. I happen to like GitHub for the product it provides. I just find corporate marketing using maintainers as a proxy is lame. But good for the people who received the money, however.