Of all the companies that might reasonably have bought GitHub, I think Microsoft is among those I like best. Definitely better than Google, Facebook, Oracle, IBM, or even, say, RedHat or Pivotal IMO. Still, I would have preferred if they’d remained independent.

Besides being a well known company... @pivotal and even @RedHat do not have the money for a deal like this. This is out of their league... by far.