Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO

Plans integration, not alteration, and promises no 'swamp' of ads

GitHub's future CEO Nat Friedman has conducted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session and outlined a little of what Microsoft plans to do with the collaborative code locker once the acquisition is formalised and admitted that "if Microsoft screws this up, we will lose the trust of developers for a generation.""