Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on Ethereum.
It gives off the same odor as Tea did, for me personally.
But yeah, Microsoft, with its myriad of cases against it, is an organisation to trust. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation)
Satoshi Nakamoto saw the state, with it's coercive taxation and central banking, and thought the answer was to make decentralized money you couldn't shut down. Hence, Bitcoin and it's millions of forks. The problem is that Bitcoin's valuations are based on the same coercive taxation, just carried out by the illegitimate criminal underworld rather than the legitimate state. That's not liberty, that's just changing who wears the jackboots.
Much like how the difference between Republicans and Democrats aren't an argument over whether the United States is better run as a Republic or a Democracy.