Confusing or misleading titles aside, YC has made literally billions of dollars off of free software and the under- or unpaid labor that produces it. They absolutely should be patronizing free software projects, perhaps not X11/X.org/Wayland, but certainly outfits like the Debian, OpenBSD, or FreeBSD foundations that make their startups possible.
Instead of laughing at ourselves for having misread a title as suggesting that YC might actually contribute something back, we should be publicly shaming them for not doing so and being an open source free-rider.
Hi, I'm Tom, one of the folks joining.
I actually work a fair amount with FreeBSD and its surrounding organizations and have helped several projects get financial backing including paying for code updates.
You can look forward to more updates as time goes on :)
Instead of laughing at ourselves for having misread a title as suggesting that YC might actually contribute something back, we should be publicly shaming them for not doing so and being an open source free-rider.