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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by ktm5j »

egeozcan wrote: post #88
laumars wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This genuinely seems like an accident judging by the authors Tweets: https://twitter.com/matthewhughes

If I could ever get over the fact that they are using Wordpress, I still wouldn't be able to explain how a single person can set dates and publish stories on their own?!

At some point, it's one persons responsibility to enter that date into a computer in some fashion.. is he supposed to share the keyboard with someone?

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by stickfigure »

laumars wrote: post #28
SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Oops" we got a big industry exclusive. Our bad guys!

This genuinely seems like an accident judging by the authors Tweets: https://twitter.com/matthewhughes

So why don't they hide or pull the post down until tomorrow?

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by sgc »

bravura wrote: post #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.

At most you could have 21? You are de facto a collaborator I would presume.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by jarsin »

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).

I switched to gitlab for the 10g free space per repo. Wont be switching back to github until they beat that.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by herodotus »

sdesol wrote: post #110
snazz wrote: post #81

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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"

Just FYI - its "loss leader" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader), although "lost leader" made me chuckle: I thought, for a second, maybe you are talking about Apple instead of Microsoft.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by bovermyer »

egeozcan wrote: post #88
laumars wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This genuinely seems like an accident judging by the authors Tweets: https://twitter.com/matthewhughes

If I could ever get over the fact that they are using Wordpress, I still wouldn't be able to explain how a single person can set dates and publish stories on their own?!

WordPress is used a lot more commonly in the news industry than you think.
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