Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project
<i>&gt;Microsoft open sourced Xamarin after acquisition and it was good for community. </i><p>I don&#x27;t think Microsoft&#x27;s previous open sourcing of Xamarin is a good indicator and may lead us to misunderstand MS&#x27;s strategy.  To me, it would be very out of character for MS to open source Github.<p>Yes, MS has released things like C# compiler (Rosalyn), Visual Studio Code (Javascript Electron app), and Xamarin to the open source community.<p>But, MS has not open sourced CodePlex, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Skype, Linkedin.<p>I see a difference between &quot;programming tools&quot; and &quot;collaboration platforms&quot; and Github is in the 2nd category.  I see no strategic reason why MS would pay $7.5 billion for Github to just turn around and open source it.