It's a little rough, and I wouldn't have been so harsh (my vitriol has faded quite a bit with age). But, having been an open source software developer and running companies based on open source for many years, I am kinda tone deaf to what constitutes "vicious" for folks that aren't accustomed to nerds getting ornery. I'm not defending it...I think the article would have been more eff with less vitriol and more examples of why this behavior is dangerous and past examples of when seemingly non-evil companies have done evil things, whether intentionally or not.

But I didn't write the article. I was just kinda jumping on the "hey Github could potentially do shitty things if we aren't careful" bandwagon. I'm definitely not anti-Github. I think they've built a great product. I'm a paying customer with private repos.