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I vaguely know (or assume) that GitHub employs some of the Git core committers, which is great. But this makes me wonder if any of the founders have written Li
by stephen 11y ago
I vaguely know (or assume) that GitHub employs some of the Git core committers, which is great.
But this makes me wonder if any of the founders have written Linus a check to show their thanks. Or maybe after they IPO. :-)
(Obviously they've done a ton on their own.)
- skuhn 11y agoRed Hat gave Linus some stock prior to their IPO, which was hardly required but a pretty nice gesture. I don't know of any other public examples of a company making stock grants to developers of major building blocks of their ecosystem, but they might be out there. GitHub is under no obligation, but I think they owe as much to Linus as Red Hat did in 1999.