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Do you have any evidence backing that up? It seems unlikely that, say, Microsoft would endanger a large and growing business by artificially sabotaging GitLab in a way which would be quite obvious.

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I can't think of any good reasons to keep your product hosted at the hands of your biggest competitor.

Yes there are examples out there but I think this is a very different situation where proprietary technology is a main advantage.

Any reason to suggest otherwise is dwarf by this reason alone. Good move and logical.

Who cares about evidence and "what's more likely". Would you host your product on your competitor's servers? I'm not saying that's why they switched, but from a business perspective it makes sense to remove that risk.

What’s the actual risk? Once you’re off in conspiracy land, why not worry that they’ll pay off a supplier or something? In the real world, blowing an Azure contract or SLA would cost more in lost business than they paid for GitHub entirely.

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