Those are great until they're not. It's why it's called "bait and switch".
> And we're yet to hear of any negative impact of their Github acquisition (afaik - correct me if wrong).
ANY?! Heh, do a quick search just on HN and you'll find it pretty quickly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221640
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221656
> I'm legitimately curious as my use of GitHub hasn't led me to notice any change
Nor I. That's not that point.
For the record, I think Microsoft has done wonderfully for the dev community in the last 10 years. I don't see any reason that they are going to "f it up", but big businesses get desperate when environments change and profits get impacted (look no further than what Oracle is doing). Microsoft is not immune to that.
Next you'll call them Micro$oft. Come on now.
If it does micro$oft will just buy the world out from under them.