Github 2008-2017: repeatedly makes international news for having an awful culture. Marginalized people are forced out, founders harass and stalk employees they are mad at, pushes meritocracy as a viable power structure, pretty much the poster child of Silicon Valley decadence.
Response: well, no one's perfect
Github 2018: Microsoft acquires Github
Response: now, this place is ruined
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@polymerwitch @tobascodagama It's possible that Microsoft could even make GitHub *better* in some ways by imposing a gray corporate blandness over it. "That might have flown in the garage, but we have an HR department." I only have secondhand knowledge of how MS operates internally, but it doesn't seem beyond the realm of reasonable speculation.