I really do not like to see the dev community upset and especially the crypto-dev community, but I think we have to seriously give Microsoft a chance.

Historically I do agree that they were not a company to be overly excited about (personally I used Windows simply because Linux and WINE was not advanced enough to run what I needed) however lately they have changed.

We - the communities - have asked them to get involved with open sourced and they have, people who pay attention to open sourced will know that Microsoft was one of the top contributors to public open source on github.

Microsoft have taken the first step with these statement:
GitHub will operate independently as a community, platform, and business. This means that GitHub will retain its developer-first values, distinctive spirit, and open extensibility. We will always support developers in their choice of any language, license, tool, platform, or cloud.

GitHub will retain its product philosophy. We love GitHub because of the deep care and thoughtfulness that goes into every facet of the developer’s experience. I understand and respect this, and know that we will continue to build tasteful, snappy, polished tools that developers love.

Read more here: https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/

I personally think that, instead of thinking that the apocalypse is upon us, we do our best to hold Microsoft to their word, in the long run, it is my opinion that this will help us more than anything.

Ultimately, I just don't want to loose GitHub, and if there is a chance for it to continue as is with MS, then I'm willing to take that chance. If it does fall through and Microsoft does go darkside on us, there is no doubt in my mind that an alternative will turn up to take over (Gitlab anyone?).