It would be wise of them not to go against those that know how to build alternatives. Never under estimate the stubbornness of a programmer wronged. Look at Ri

It would be wise of them not to go against those that know how to build alternatives. Never under estimate the stubbornness of a programmer wronged. Look at Richard Stallman, disliked proprietary software so much he spent his life fighting it even building large parts of an OS! Messing with Github would be like creating 100,000 Stallmans - and I don't think anyone wants that. ;)