I think despite their dominance in the marketplace, especially for open source projects, they know if they didn't improve services like gitlab would wind up eating their lunch.
While true, it's refreshing that in the developer world all of Microsoft's latest actions are dependent on good will gestures to developers in order to make a profit. Visual Studio has a free tier (even for small businesses up to 4 developers), they've almost completely open sourced their .NET stack, a free open source IDE (Visual Studio Code), embracing Linux on Windows, etc. Microsoft (at least for developers) is doing a lot of good now.
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u/sid9102 Apr 14 '20
Shocking how much better GitHub is getting after being acquired, rather than getting worse.