probably doing the ol' delayed switcheroo like facebook is doing with whatsapp - maintain product as is for a couple of years to avoid immediate backlash while

probably doing the ol' delayed switcheroo like facebook is doing with whatsapp - maintain product as is for a couple of years to avoid immediate backlash while slowly enmeshing and branding all the tools in the product. then boom one day it's called azure officeserver or some similar microsoft style name and monetised like crazy with github being a deprecated sub-project left to wither and die. it is NOT in their interest to defend github in any way. any negative press attached to the product literally doesn't matter to them since it's not associated with microsoft