Probably worth reminding that this is the project where the backing company is centered around crypto/blockchain, but they pinkie promise it will never affect this work!
Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on Ethereum.
It gives off the same odor as Tea did, for me personally.
If you meme yourself into getting the ick around libertarians, you cripple your ability to defend liberty. Imagine that.
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You understand that their work is fully open-source right? So there is no need to believe any promises, just fork the code and move on.
But yeah, Microsoft, with its myriad of cases against it, is an organisation to trust. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation)