Re: So what did you want?
""muh muh muh evil muh muh convicted monopolist muh Ballmer muh is it still 1992?"
You don't have to go back to 1992 to find Microsoft doing evil -- they've not stopped, so there are plenty of examples that are squarely in the here and now.
"This was the best choice for GitHub."
If this was the best choice for Github, then Github was already doomed and is fully worthy of being abandoned.