And without funding, they all die. GitHub gets a Daddy Warbucks to fund them now and fear of what could be is causing so many people to lose their minds.

Microsoft acquired another non-open-source company two years ago — Xamarin — and dropped the price to use it to zero immediately and then open sourced the stack as soon as the lawyers gave them the all-clear. The co-founder of Xamarin, Miguel de Icaza, is no idiot and certainly not a sell-out. If he’s convinced this is a new Microsoft you can trust, what’s your objection?