Saw this on ycombinator. Couldn't disagree with it more. I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy, but arguing GNU shouldn't use Github because it's owned by Microsoft is hysterical nonsense.

If the site does it's job well, then what's the problem? Is Microsoft going to steal GNU's public and free code?

GNU developers want to spend their limited time and resources writing software. Not hosting websites, which is both more tedious, expensive and time consuming than most people realize. When you visit some project's website, and it's not hosted by a company like Github, most people don't realize that's usually being paid for out of the developer's pocket. Not everyone is wants to spend their money like that, especially when a company like Github can utilize economies of scale to do it virtually for free.

I have projects hosted on Github and elsewhere. I had reservations about Microsoft's acquisition of them, but so far I haven't seen any meaingful changes in the site's features or policies.