Ah the GitLab astroturfers are here
GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
21–30 of 86 posts
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#22Ah the GitLab astroturfers are here
I mean, I use gitlab, gitea, github, and bitbucket all fairly regularly for different projects, and I haven't seen anything out of the gitlab posts here that I think is wrong.
People disagreeing with you and/or opposing the free offerings of a company known for embrace/extend/extinguish does not mean they're astroturfing.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#23It gives you a credit of $1,000 monthly for 2 years, but there's no real indication anywhere on Github of exactly what that pays for? So it's not really free. How does this compare with Gitlab and Bitbucket offerings for small teams? I know Bitbucket has a one-time payment option for their self-hosted version of $10 for 10 users. Pretty hard to beat that, unless you're adamant you need it hosted for you.
why not a gitea or gitlab instance running on a few pi's or something? Why pay anything at all?
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
So basically up 47 free users for 2 years. Not bad.
Is 47 users really a "startup"? If you have anywhere near 47 actual users, affording $1k a month is going to be trivial. Would be nice if you could have, say, 5 users and extend the 2 years by not using all $1k monthly credits, adding users as you grow.
If you can't afford to start paying after 2 years, it's time to give up or pivot. This is very generous of MS/GH to offer until you've got traction.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#25I would not use GitHub these days. On GitLab, you can decide to download all your data anytime and put it into a selfhosted GitLab instance. Why would I want to give that up and put my balls into the hands of Microsoft?
Don't worry, soon you'll probably be able to put your balls in the hands of Google. Git is distributed by definition. If you really want to be free, stop using external centralized sc services.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#26It gives you a credit of $1,000 monthly for 2 years, but there's no real indication anywhere on Github of exactly what that pays for? So it's not really free. How does this compare with Gitlab and Bitbucket offerings for small teams? I know Bitbucket has a one-time payment option for their self-hosted version of $10 for 10 users. Pretty hard to beat that, unless you're adamant you need it hosted for you.
why not a gitea or gitlab instance running on a few pi's or something? Why pay anything at all?
Because if you're a startup, you probably don't want to deal with something like that. You want something that "just works."
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#27It gives you a credit of $1,000 monthly for 2 years, but there's no real indication anywhere on Github of exactly what that pays for? So it's not really free. How does this compare with Gitlab and Bitbucket offerings for small teams? I know Bitbucket has a one-time payment option for their self-hosted version of $10 for 10 users. Pretty hard to beat that, unless you're adamant you need it hosted for you.
why not a gitea or gitlab instance running on a few pi's or something? Why pay anything at all?
The program offers github enterprise for free. The credits are in addition to that and can be used to e.g buy cloud CI/CD time.
Running your own infrastructure doesn’t cost nothing.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#28I would not use GitHub these days. On GitLab, you can decide to download all your data anytime and put it into a selfhosted GitLab instance. Why would I want to give that up and put my balls into the hands of Microsoft?
This article is specifically about free access to `GitHub Enterprise` the self-hosted GitHub instances.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#29It gives you a credit of $1,000 monthly for 2 years, but there's no real indication anywhere on Github of exactly what that pays for? So it's not really free. How does this compare with Gitlab and Bitbucket offerings for small teams? I know Bitbucket has a one-time payment option for their self-hosted version of $10 for 10 users. Pretty hard to beat that, unless you're adamant you need it hosted for you.
>It gives you a credit of $1,000 monthly for 2 years, but there's no real indication anywhere on Github of exactly what that pays for? Random screenshot I was able to find on their help page. Seems to be that the pricing for github enterprise is around $21/month/user. https://help.github.com/assets/images/help/organizations/sta...
i wouldn't be able to tell you, github enterprise invoices are really weird and hard to read, we had to ask for a correction once too because it would've never gotten past bookkeeping
the entire enterprise feature set seems uncharacteristically less polished in some places, the UX is confusing throughout and things you'd think you could do in the enterprise dashboard being elsewhere in the organization settings
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#30Startups requiring compliance documentation from GitHub were forced to upgrade to GH Enterprise. Many competitors provide this for free or a fraction of the price. An industry based on an open source language will naturally have a race to the bottom in terms of price. GitHub's CLI is a move to get people off the open source solution by obfuscation.
The CLI is itself open source. Surely it can't be a huge barrier for competing software (GitLab, Gitea, etc) to implement its API.
How can you say that? It's definitely a significant barrier.
"Open source" is often used to appear more "friendly" to outsiders. Something can be open source and still be used to lock people into a particular environment. Case in point: Chromium, Android, etc.