If $500K is such great PR that it's worth it to the company, I hope we can see a bunch of other companies (and, hey, divisions of Microsoft) do it too!

Presumably people are just as or even more upset at all the other companies who use open source internally but don't give cash like this to large numbers of open source projects? Right? [insert Anakin Padme meme] If all big companies donated $500K a year to open source, that'd be a pretty significant change in the environment, wouldn't it?

I have noticed for a while that HN comments lean really anti-Github. I don't really understand why.