This is my concern, if the US Gov had **lls, you would force Microsoft spin Github off into a non-profit company.
Already things have been added to Github that most developers of "Open" Source do not like. Time for github to be made independent and run from a foundation like the *BSDs
What's wrong with the non-GNU side? The hosting requirements look pretty reasonable to me: https://savannah.nongnu.org/register/requirements.php
Also: some of those policies are ridiculous. "We require the “or any later version” formulation for the GNU GPL, GNU AGPL, and GNU LGPL." It could not host the most widely used free software on the planet: Linux.
Do you think they're out there shooting people in the Middle East so that Middle Eastern oil companies can make more money or so that the American ones can?
There is a vast system of interests, but I don't agree that overall incentives are to make US companies get as big as possible. They lose competitiveness at some point.
Middle East is not relevant.
Github not being part of Microsoft could be better for the overall economy. Consider the development of the World Wide Web. If you consider Github and aspects of Github as a network and communication protocol, it would be better in the long term to decentralize control.