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This is concerning as free tools often don't make economic sense. Even more concerning is how casually Joel treats this issue in the Q&A section. He should know

• GarethX 10y ago
  To be fair, he does. Fog Creek has been going for over 15 years. Trello started with a similar model - only free use at the start as they figured out the best way to monetize, and now they are making $10M+ a year [1] 1 - http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/05/23/trello-get-serious-about-big-businesses-as-it-passes-1-1-million-daily-users-and-triples-sales/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/05/23/trello-get...
• Cthulhu_ 10y ago
  Worse than not making economic sense, it opens the door wide for malicious users - I'm sure some guy is already working on setting up JS-based bitcoin miners that just use up these free, no-login servers' CPU capacity, or set up malware sites, child porn hosting, you name it. The barriers - login, mainly - aren't there to annoy users.
  • benologist 10y ago
    I was looking at issues on the c9.io github yesterday and saw someone complaining that he was banned ... after running a minecraft server, slack bots and more lol.
    • mappu 10y ago
      https://github.com/c9/core/issues/304 https://github.com/c9/core/issues/304