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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by jf22 »

TheRealWatson wrote: post #21
saagarjha wrote: post #8

I'm curious if GitHub is now a loss leader for Microsoft, or if personal subscriptions were a small portion of their revenue.

I have zero insight on this but I also don't know anyone in my circle who pays individually for Github... When they need that, they use Bitbucket. I know several people I worked for or did business with that paid for Organization accounts, from Team to Enterprise.

I've paid $8 for the basic plan for years.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by adventured »

r3bl wrote: post #27
lettergram wrote: post #4

Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D Thank you Github / Microsoft! > Due to a scheduling error, we published this story one day before the embargo lifted. This feature isn’t live yet, but Github will formally unveil it tomorrow. When that happens, we’ll update this post with a link to the official announcement. Also... kinda unfair to others.

Yup, this will mean that there's no reason for me to keep my subscription as well. This will also make me a little more cautious as a consumer, since they're voluntarily removing the incentive for me to pay for their services upfront.

It'll be interesting to see how aggressive they are in trying to gain market share by putting off profitability improvements for the Github business. $40b in operating income and $135b in cash, they can certainly afford to play the long game if it makes sense competitively.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by GordonS »

balls187 wrote: post #38

This is a smart move. Gives developers who have small indy projects a reason to use Github rather than a competitor (I know I use gitlab precisely because it's free for my private one-off repos).

Yep, although one of the products this competes with is Azure DevOps - which also offers unlimited git repos... and is of course also owned by Microsoft!

I'm wondering what the future holds for both GitHub and Azure DevOps. I actually use both, and have done for several years, and they're both great products - I'd hate for either of them to go away.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by jopsen »

klinskyc wrote: post #39

While understandable, this is sad to see. The amount of interesting and useful code that is currently available due to GitHub defaulting to public will likely be seriously negatively impacted by this.

Maybe, maybe not...

Open source is just as much a culture. I don't mind fewer repositories without a LICENSE.

I suspect people who wanted free private hosting used gitlab or bitbucket.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by jdietrich »

siruncledrew wrote: post #16
SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Oops" we got a big industry exclusive. Our bad guys!

Are there usually ramifications for leaking stories early like this? Would GitHub be peeved if another source published this before their official PR statement?

Accidental breaches do happen; they're embarrassing, but not critical. Deliberately or repeatedly breaching embargos will quickly put you on a blacklist. Nobody is going to provide you with embargoed press releases if they don't trust you.

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Post by gtaylor »

klinskyc wrote: post #39

While understandable, this is sad to see. The amount of interesting and useful code that is currently available due to GitHub defaulting to public will likely be seriously negatively impacted by this.

I can only speak for myself, but I had simply put all of my private stuff over in GitLab instead. For folks like me, this will result in no external change. Just a question of where I stash stuff.
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