There was mention of partnering with Google, Microsoft, and Pivotal (in their blog post http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/global-continuous-delivery-with.html

There was mention of partnering with Google, Microsoft, and Pivotal (in their blog post http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/global-continuous-delivery-with.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/global-continuous-delive... ). Maybe they wanted to have a separate github organization for easier management, etc.