Phil is smart, and MVC3 helped .NET enormously but I think people are getting carried away that the guy is some sort of paid ambassador for Microsoft and .NET a

Phil is smart, and MVC3 helped .NET enormously but I think people are getting carried away that the guy is some sort of paid ambassador for Microsoft and .NET at Github. I imagine that he'll do whatever it takes to make Github better with the skill-set and experience he has, but that doesn't mean he has to have some mandate from Microsoft on what to change. Maybe he's just a good engineer and Github hires those? Let's give it a few months at least. Perhaps he'll work on a whole bunch of non-Microsoft stacks now? Getting Open Source within Microsoft and the Microsoft communities is probably more an issue with culture rather than tooling - a hire won't 'fix' that. It would take many counter-culture things (and years) to change I think. Phil working at Github rather than wanting to work at Microsoft is the interesting aspect, and I can't see why that would be 'good' for Microsoft. Congrats to Phil and Github!