I'm really disappointed with the conversation this has provoked. I was a fortunate recipient of this and I am delighted. I'm pleased about the money, that's great. But more than that I was really thrilled to discover that I had indirectly worked on GitHub; because I love GitHub.

I feel like I should qualify this further. I actually missed the original email and spent a day or so realising friends and open source colleagues were being recognised, whilst believing my own OSS wasn't in the mix. And I was pleased for them.

I've been doing OSS for more than a decade. I enjoy it. I wish companies directly supported it, as paying for what you value is responsible and wise. GitHub just did that. Thank you GitHub. I appreciate it. This was a good thing. Well done!