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Wtf. Why would one start with the software-patent and lawsuit-based platform?

Does nobody at github have any sense of ethics? Github was built on open source software and Linux. Why not give something back? Why support those who spend national budgets on anti open-source lawsuits?




Probably because GitHub was built with Macs. And it's not like they haven't open sourced a thing...




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