Are the "PRO" badges that have been showing up on Github profiles today in any way related to this?
Announcing unlimited free private repos
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#482A lot of people are concerned about the “what if they make me the product since I’m no longer paying.” A few reasons I don’t think that will happen: - private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account. - Github is a growing social network for developers. Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and a…
Microsoft isn't even trying to directly make money off GitHub Enterprise. What they're doing is plugging GitHub into a giant ecosystem of Azure-related services that they sell to large corporations for millions of dollars per year per customer. They could give away GitHub for free entirely, and might, if there's a one-click "deploy to Azure" and similar functionality that brings people into the Microsoft shop.
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#483i can hide my shitty code.
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#484Does anyone know if they are “auto downgrading accounts” if you currently pay for private repos?
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#485Is this even a surprise, the industry moved to a per user model a while back, inc Bitbucket. So its unlimited private repositories but you pay big time to get more than 5 users sharing that repo.
It's surprising most people here aren't picking up on that. If you have more private projects on that make money. It's more likely you have more collaborators that you have to pay.
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#486Does anyone know if they are “auto downgrading accounts” if you currently pay for private repos?
Not as far as I can tell. As it comes with a loss of Pages and wikis for private repos.
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#487I notice that "wikis" for private repos isn't supported. What happens to these wikis when I downgrade?
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#488Are the "PRO" badges that have been showing up on Github profiles today in any way related to this?
Yes, they indicate paying customers.
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#489Does anyone know if they are “auto downgrading accounts” if you currently pay for private repos?
I don't believe they are. It's pretty easy to go downgrade if you want to, though.
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#490Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference is that LinkedIn was creepy before Microsoft bought it and it has nothing to do with Ads. LinkedIn is and always has been creepy and sleezy because it's a relationship networking tool and not a platform for work or collaboration. Whenever I used LinkedIn, it always gave me the same feeling I get when talking to a Salesman or Recruiter, that I'm being exploited and they're trying to convince me that it'…
GitHub is creepy. Centralizing a decentralized software system then censoring projects isn't all rainbows and unicorns.
> censoring projects
Have they ever done that? I wasn’t aware of any such thing.