[toofy]

To paraphrase what someone else said yesterday:

In a world where companies are expected to have growth every quarter, a project like GitHub is one bad quarter away from microsoft making major changes or being abandoned or being completely shutdown.

As we’ve seen with product after product, when companies are expected to have growth every quarter, they will sometimes (often?) make radical changes to the software. In the case of GitHub, if microsoft decided it needed far more profit coming in from GitHub, it is entirely reasonable to expect they may decide to shift it into a service which is only usable for their large corporate partners, or they may decide the social features need to go, or they may decide to stop allowing public repos, etc...

Microsoft has shown many many times in the past that they’re more than willing to throw out open standards and attempted to force adoption of their own proprietary standards.

It is entirely reasonable to be at least a tad skeptical given their history and their business model.