GitLab is awesome as a broke amateur dev with 0 way to really give back to GitLab the team was cool enough to send me a tshirt and stickers. Its come a long way since then but they seem to be awesome. I dont know if the msft acq is generally even a bad thing, but its great there are options either at GitLab.com or as a self-run service for people to change over to if they want. Congrats!