[fjni]

Correct. Unclear wording on my part. If you build a product that is meant to be used by the open source community, you build features which are at odds with companies’ needs that care about keeping their code proprietary.

[okanat]

However, their business goal has always been targeting proprietary software companies. Open source support has always been the marketing part of their business. It basically falls apart whatever view you take:

If Github are building a free-as-in-free-beer tool for open source ecosystem, being a for profit company that tries to make money from proprietary software companies doesn't make sense.

If Github are a for profit company building paid tooling for paying customers who want to keep their software proprietary, then narrow mindedly designing their tooling as if everything is out in the open doesn't make sense.

Both cases show they are either naive, incompetent or in a serious misunderstanding about who their customers are.