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If this were part of an effort that started last year, or if GitHub had a serious history in donating to maintainers of open source software (either in the 10 y

If this were part of an effort that started last year, or if GitHub had a serious history in donating to maintainers of open source software (either in the 10 years as a private company or 4 years as part of Microsoft), then this would be judged on the merits of donating to open source. But they don't have that sort of history, so "why are they starting now as opposed to years ago?" is a natural question to ask.

rglullis 4y ago
You can (and should) ask as many meta-questions as you want. But what I am seeing is that people are trying to judge the main topic based on these meta-questions, and that is... I don't know, kind of stupid? Again: you are fully entitled to like or dislike Microsoft. But if you hear "BigCorp gave $500k to FOSS" and your opinion of this depends on "which BigCorp did it?", I'll take it as a sign that your opinion is biased and should be completely ignored.