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Economics is not a zero-sum game. Just because the company is making money doesn't mean that you are losing something.

Github has been underwater for years, would you rather it be propped up by a big corporate sponsor that can subsidize its losses, or run out of money and die?

I expect to move, because I also do not trust microsoft, but I am not moving yet until I see what they do with it.

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>Economics is not a zero-sum game.

This is not what I'm implying.

>I am not moving yet until I see what they do with it.

If you are too late, you might not get your projects off without paying fees.

>If you are too late, you might not get your projects off without paying fees. This thinking belies a misunderstanding of how Git works. There is no way they can prevent a person from pushing to another repo and recreating whatever workflow they had on Github.

Remember that github is not just git hosting. While I cannot envision a future in which they'd actively prevent you from export/crawl out your own data, migrating your workflow is not as easy as changing your remote.

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