I think the problem really is that Fox and other news sources are primary "factual" sources of information for a vast percentage of the American population, and

I think the problem really is that Fox and other news sources are primary "factual" sources of information for a vast percentage of the American population, and they come out with a piece that is ignorant enough that it feels like it is belittling everyone who programs. It's not that they "don't get what we do," it's that there was clearly no effort to try. It feels like a "I don't know what this is, so I'll trivialize it move on" attitude. I mean comon.... all they would have had to do was email IT and ask what GitHub does. Surely someone there could have made a layman's explanation for the news that didn't involve the phrase "reciprocity or a big chunk of software."