[augustocamargo]

GitHub will operate independently as a community, platform, and business. This means that GitHub will retain its developer-first values, distinctive spirit, and open extensibility. We will always support developers in their choice of any language, license, tool, platform, or cloud.

GitHub will retain its product philosophy. We love GitHub because of the deep care and thoughtfulness that goes into every facet of the developer’s experience. I understand and respect this, and know that we will continue to build tasteful, snappy, polished tools that developers love.

[dustinmoris]

Never in the history of acquisitions of that profile has the buyer ever given a different message than "we won't touch anything".

Of course they will make big changes two years later down the line. You don't buy something if you have no plans for it.

[LaGrange]

> Never in the history of acquisitions of that profile has the buyer ever given a different message than "we won't touch anything".

Well, _technically_ I worked for one where it functioned in a hands-off way. The big difference was, the parent company was a holding company specialising in a certain industry, and us functioning differently from their other properties was the whole point.

In this case, I expect things to go the What's App way: it's going to be long and slow, but MS will eat it eventually.