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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by madamelic »

mroche wrote: post #273

For those of you using GitLab, BitBucket, or , does this make you consider switching back at all? If so, why? It may be myopic, but the only major reason I can think of is visibility if you plan on publicizing the repo at some point. But you can achieve this by using GitHub as a mirror for your main repo on another platform (at least for GitLab, I’m not familiar with BitBucket). Edit: Personally, I use GitLab (both .…

>does this make you consider switching back at all? If so, why?

Complete opposite. I'm going to stop using it as much as I can.

This is quite annoying. I'd much rather they take my pittance than monetize me any other way.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by bduerst »

madamelic wrote: post #365
_vuqm wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

depends on how the social network is monetized. There are no ads on Github. Unless github is selling user data to third parties, their monetization method is well known (paid enterprise features)

I feel like your entire comment could be ended with "...yet" I'm sure the screws will tighten on it. Unless Microsoft's entire plan is to run it forever, giving blank checks to GitHub, as a way to endear developers to Microsoft. Maybe.

I can't remember - Did Skype have ads before or after Microsoft acquired it?

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by andrei_says_ »

geezerjay wrote: post #295
moritzplassnig wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When GitHub's financials got leaked in 2016, GitHub's personal accounts accounted for 12.5% of their revenue. GitHub Enterprise was 50%, their organization (= business) accounts were the remaining 37.5% [1]. It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. [1] https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-bett... (disclaimer: I wrote the article but the data is by Bloom…

> It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. Your assertion can only make sense if you also believe that a 12% paycut is irrelevant to your income.

I imagine they are making predictions of enterprise business influx through new users who will take their personal private repos and possibly business (back) to github.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by Spooky23 »

geezerjay wrote: post #295
moritzplassnig wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When GitHub's financials got leaked in 2016, GitHub's personal accounts accounted for 12.5% of their revenue. GitHub Enterprise was 50%, their organization (= business) accounts were the remaining 37.5% [1]. It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. [1] https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-bett... (disclaimer: I wrote the article but the data is by Bloom…

> It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. Your assertion can only make sense if you also believe that a 12% paycut is irrelevant to your income.

It's probably shrinking dramatically on a percentage basis -- Microsoft's massive enterprise presence drive tens or hundreds of thousands of accounts.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by WorldMaker »

GordonS wrote: post #63
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.

Azure Repos likely will remain competitive, at least in the near term, with GitHub simply for its "by default" integration with the rest of DevOps (versus GitHub's opt-in to the rest of DevOps), and easy hooks into corporate SSO and billing (Office 365). It will be interesting to see what happens with Azure Repos in the longer term.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by csours »

geezerjay wrote: post #295
moritzplassnig wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When GitHub's financials got leaked in 2016, GitHub's personal accounts accounted for 12.5% of their revenue. GitHub Enterprise was 50%, their organization (= business) accounts were the remaining 37.5% [1]. It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. [1] https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-bett... (disclaimer: I wrote the article but the data is by Bloom…

> It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. Your assertion can only make sense if you also believe that a 12% paycut is irrelevant to your income.

My business may be able to spend 12% of revenue on advertisement.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by ascagnel_ »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #229
bepotts wrote: post #84

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I always believed Microsoft saw GitHub as a potential "in" for millions of developers, rather than a product that could generate revenue. This move doesn't worry me, as I'm sure Microsoft would look to do something easy to calm the nerves of people who worried about Microsoft's acquisition. The cynic in me sees this as sweetener for Microsoft's later moves to integrate GitHub with Microsoft's developer tools, which w…

Why would better integration between Github and Microsoft dev tools be a bad thing?

I'm assuming MS knows enough not to break existing integrations, but they could build in a direction such that Azure-based stuff becomes a "first, best" integration with GitHub.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by neom »

nsriv wrote: post #196
neom wrote: post #159

"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. " Not even an apology in there, would have expected more from TNW.

I'm sure they apologized to Github, even if they didn't apologize to you for reading it.

Ah that's good to know. Do you have a copy of the apology? Sadly, I don't have access to Chris Wanstraths email.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by rwt »

xte wrote: post #388
mroche wrote: post #378

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> On git only: what is another remote? A remote is a URL location of a repository. A local git repo can point to multiple remotes by using the git remote functionality. For instance, you can point your local repo to GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket and choose which to push to using the command git push .

Hem, no perhaps is my poor English but you do not understand: I know what a git remote is. My point is what kind of "other remote" a typical FOSS project have these days? In the past we have tons of hosters so we can easily spread our code in many "mirror", now there is GitHub and few others, mostly on the very same "cloud". I mean you have no damn viable remote. Single devs can share code P2P but nothing that can wo…

Get a VPS and setup git?
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