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Not at the $0 price point they don't.
I can see that happening at some point... as long as you host in Azure.
> on-prem
GitHub is now free for teams
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Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#422Hi Nat, ICE kidnaps children and forces their captives to live in unsafe, inhumane, over-crowded conditions in the middle of a global pandemic. Why do you work with them?
Github donated the money ICE paid them to charities that are directly counteracting the bad things ICE is doing.
Isn't that clearly better than just forcing ICE to install Gitlab?
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You know what the Greeks would have thought about someone that doesn't care about politics? They'd think their best station in life would to be a slave.
but how does politics apply to such a boring tool like github? its like saying ICE shouldn't use Google Docs or Gimp... its not a weapon or an advantage in actual human cruelty that furthers non altruistic goals.
That right they shouldn't because they engage human rights violations as a matter of policy.
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terrible question and off topic get political complaints out of here, github is a programming tool. doesn't matter if police use the same non lethal tools as normal citizens.
How far around your head do your political blinkers wrap? Would you be happy to write control programs for torture workstations?
It's not really fair to compare selling tooling to a large agency that does a lot of different things with directly writing software that does something evil.
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Presumably ICE buys light bulbs. Should we also call out light bulb manufacturers and distributors for “working with ICE”? It’s not about politics for me, but rather the viewpoint that companies shouldn’t be the moral police of their customers.
I mean, I'm open to discussing whether we should or shouldn't, but I think it's not an off-topic discussion!
pretty off topic to bring up customers of a lightbulb factory to shame them for selling headlamps to tanks...
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#426Hi HN, I'm the CEO of GitHub. Everyone at GitHub is really excited about this announcement, and I'm happy to answer any questions. We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that it's grown dramatically in the last year, and so we're able to make GitHub free for teams that don'…
Hi Nat,
first of all thanks from every developer in the world. I think this is going to be a great step forward for people who don't need enterprise features (yet).
One question: is this service going to be available in countries that are currently hit by US sanctions?
(eg. Iran)
Thanks again
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#427Hi Nat, ICE kidnaps children and forces their captives to live in unsafe, inhumane, over-crowded conditions in the middle of a global pandemic. Why do you work with them?
This should be the overriding concern of everyone in this forum. It's no longer astonishing[0], but it is quite disgusting how HN participants are able to compartmentalize their enthusiasm for technology away from moral or ethical qualms. I suppose the most generous interpretation is to assume that they are simply unaware.[1] Upstream of that ignorance, however, is a fearful unwillingness to interrogate the foundatio…
You must be enjoying quarantine, because if your ethical horse is up this high you must not be able to leave the house without encountering "qualms"
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#428Earlier quoted context omitted.
How far around your head do your political blinkers wrap? Would you be happy to write control programs for torture workstations?
It's not really fair to compare selling tooling to a large agency that does a lot of different things with directly writing software that does something evil.
I made no such comparison.
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#429Hi HN, I'm the CEO of GitHub. Everyone at GitHub is really excited about this announcement, and I'm happy to answer any questions. We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that it's grown dramatically in the last year, and so we're able to make GitHub free for teams that don'…
Excuse me for being cynical, but I read this announcement as:
“Because nothing is truly free, we will be selling your data to pay for this new seemingly free service.”
If this is what you’re doing, if the privacy policy changes, I’ll be very disappointed.
How will this be funded? We’re customers actually against paying a small free to use the service?
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but how does politics apply to such a boring tool like github? its like saying ICE shouldn't use Google Docs or Gimp... its not a weapon or an advantage in actual human cruelty that furthers non altruistic goals.
That right they shouldn't because they engage human rights violations as a matter of policy.
but anyone including drug cartels are free to use github and google docs.
sure it might be against Googles policy on a technically but are you seriously suggesting crime orgs care about the TOS included with their burner android phones?