[grey_earthling]

> No, it's more like somebody sending to your lab, uninvited, an impersonal inspection bot with another company's branding on it, which doesn't only disclose potential issues to you but advertises them across the whole cyberspace.

GitHub isn't your lab. It's Microsoft's lab. (They just rent out space free of charge.)

[throwaway290]

I stand corrected. (You forgot that they also mine my lab for data subsequently used in paid solutions.)

My point is, we should cherish the culture that enables progress and learning by routinely opening works of passion to free use and contribution. We could cherish it by employing a sense of ethics and adherence to certain protocols of behavior, these don't need to be spelled out but those of us who know better can lead by example. Putting OSS maintainers under undue stress has come under fire before, and this looks like one of those cases.