The billion dollars company contributed more to your startup than you do to them. Microsoft provides:
- VSCode,
- Hosts all NPM repositories. You know, the ones small startups are too lazy to cache (also because it’s much harder to cache NPM repositories than Maven) and then you re-download them at each build,
- Typescript
If a mega corporation gives you something for free it's always more beneficial to them otherwise they wouldn't do it in the first place.
Granted, I myself have been guilty of not giving back to the open source community this way in the past, but I won't pretend that was reasonable or ethical of me!
edit: after reading some commemnts, i realize i may have meant to say "free software" instead of "open source"
