  In 2018, the software industry giants Microsoft made a move into the Open
Source world by completing the acquisition of mega Open Source platform,
GitHub. This acquisition was not without controversy, as it is well-known that
the free software communities includes not only the ability to use software
freely, but also the libre nature in Open Source Software. In this study, our
aim is to explore these perceptions in FLOSS developers. We conducted a survey
that covered traditional FLOSS source Linux, and BSD communities and received
246 developer responses. The results of the survey confirm that the free
community did trigger some communities to move away from GitHub and raised
discussions into free and open software on the GitHub platform. The study
reminds us that although GitHub is influential and trendy, it does not
representative all FLOSS communities.
