When your competitors (bitbucket/git lab) have been offering the same thing for a while now, it only makes sense.
Announcing unlimited free private repos
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#102I'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'm an individual software contractor and I pay for a personal plan. GitHub UI and UX appeal to me more than competitors do. Also it seems that all the libraries I regularly use keep their code on GitHub, it feels like a community to me.
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#103This was the reason why I mostly use GitLab for several years now. I prefer to make public those code that are refactored, well crafted and documented.
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#104My strategy of avoiding this banner paid off: https://cl.ly/224133cb505d
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#106"Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece."
So let's be clear here. If I have 10 private repos, I can have 30 collaborators? Or they must be the same three.
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#107I always got unlimited repos, i have unlimited email accounts. it's just good opsec to run multiple accounts.
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#108Does anyone have a source for this news beyond the TNW article that's being shared everywhere? I couldn't find any official announcement from GitHub.
I'm the author of this post. The article has been updated to clarify that I accidentally published it one day before the embargo lifted. GitHub will formally announce the news tomorrow.
GitHub should publish the post today after noticing this and remove the embargo for other publications.
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#109Well, 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.
thank you gitlab for providing market competition forcing github to consider this!
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D > Thank you Github / Microsoft! What a weird way to thank a company. I get it, but still.
Did they just cut off a significant source of revenue, or do companies that subscribe to Enterprise make them so much more money that it doesn’t matter?
Now that they belong to Microsoft, direct revenue is no longer as important. GitHub will probably be treated as a loss leader for the time being, with the long term goal of making it an Enterprise leader.
Microsoft will be more than happy to use GitHub for analytics, AI/ML research and to drive developers to their other offerings, especially their cloud ones.
Edit: Updated error from "lost" to "loss"