The president of the FFII points out that Neelie Kroes says about open source: "What if we are sued if we infringe someone else IP if we use this?"
Given Kroes' past when it comes to patents, it's no shocking U-turn and the video above is good news by most judgments. There are also good things happening in the UK government at the moment. More on that soon. ⬆
In short, it's not too clear what Microsoft has just done except dumping GitHub - i.e. mostly a Web site that loses a ton of money (it always lost money) - into some mysterious new bucket
