I do respectfully disagree on the notion that any good will come out of Microsoft buying Github — then again, my reaction to a sentence like “social coding” was “what’s wrong with kids these days”, so probably I’m not your target audience :-)

I, for one, am voting with my feet and will gradually move my code out of Github: it’s a major chore, as there are a ton of repos and code accumulated there over the many, may years of (not-so-social) coding, but I’m not waiting until the building is on fire…

Funnily enough, the very reason why I’m moving out is probably the same very reason why you applaud the move (well, beyond the necessity, I presume, or your being the CEO of a small company and having to be nice to a potential acquirer/customer/sponsor, I guess): more pointless, gimmicky, “social” features, and less of what hard-core, serious coders really need.