It sounds like Github was in a financially vulnerable position and shopped around for the best suitor. Microsoft is committing heavily on open source, for good

It sounds like Github was in a financially vulnerable position and shopped around for the best suitor. Microsoft is committing heavily on open source, for good or bad, and it would be tactically disadvantageous for Github to fall into the hands of a competitor. If history tells us anything about acquisitions of this nature, it never ends well. But I could honestly see things being a lot worse if they'd been acquired by someone like Apple or Google.