GitHub turns on money tap for corporate open-source donations, turns off the lights with dark mode design

Microsoft's GitHub has revised its financial plumbing to allow corporate customers to contribute cash to favored open-source projects via GitHub's existing billing setup. Whether or not businesses will choose to reward developers who provide the free labor that powers today's tech economy is another matter. GitHub is merely …

[Robert Grant]

> "The clean separation between the two buckets is actually really important for productivity," said Schoening.

This sounds real.

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft needs donations?

2020 has been a funny old year.

[karlkarl]

And let me guess, only those projects using cool "Microsoft Technology" are eligible ;)

[Gene Cash]

Some developers are getting to a six-figure income

Both of them!

[Sceptic Tank]

Re: Some developers are getting to a six-figure income

Does that 6-figure include cents?