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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz @hacktoberfest@hachyderm.io @icedquinn@blob.cat Or you could take a more positive approach and demand they at least support free and open source platforms? That would seem to be more in the spirit of "our month of support".

It seems ridiculous to me to say "yeah we love open source so much but only if you do it on proprietary platforms where corporations get to control you, can't have you being too free now can we", and then have people defend that as if Hacktoberfest is some holy practice we may not question.

If you want to support free and open source, do it properly, and if people point out the blatant hypocrisy, consider not defending the team of corporates that have been abusing free and open source software for decades. They care for their bottom line only.

Hacktoberfest is nothing more than a PR stunt, and I find it disappointing that it works so well for them.