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>this subtly piggy-backs on it towards lock-in for tooling FTA: "More than a dozen integrators have apps in GitHub Marketplace today, including Travis CI, Appv

>this subtly piggy-backs on it towards lock-in for tooling FTA: "More than a dozen integrators have apps in GitHub Marketplace today, including Travis CI, Appveyor, Waffle, ZenHub, Sentry, and Codacy" Travis CI and many others were widespread prior to this marketplace. Seems to me that creating a marketplace is a logical way to collect these third-party services in one place.

YPCrumble 9y ago
...and charge the going market rate of 30% of any revenue earned via the GitHub platform.
- robzyb 9y ago
  TravisCI Pro Bootstrap direct is $69: https://travis-ci.com/plans https://travis-ci.com/plans TravisCI Pro Bootstrap via Github is $89: https://github.com/marketplace/travis-ci/plan/MDIyOk1hcmtldHBsYWNlTGlzdGluZ1BsYW43MQ== https://github.com/marketplace/travis-ci/plan/MDIyOk1hcmtldH...
  - devhead 9y ago
    any indication why the prices are different? it's not like they think we won't sniff that out, right?
    - TAForObvReasons 9y ago
      That's an oversight on Github's part and will end in a TOS change in one of two directions: price parity or complete prohibition of paid services that use GH integrations outside of the marketplace
      - abustamam 9y ago
        Ironic that the "hub for open-source projects" could become a walled garden if the latter happens.
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        stephenr 9y ago
        Irony is about intentions. Free-for-open is a marketing tactic, pure and simple.
        robzyb 9y ago
        > Ironic that the "hub for open-source projects" could become a walled garden if the latter happens. I would say that the irony occurred when the "hub for open-source projects" is a closed-source platform. (And I would say that as a paying user of Github that rather loves it.)
    - stephenr 9y ago
      It's different because GH take a cut of any sales via the Marketplace. People already pay anywhere from 3-10x more for GH than for alternatives like BitBucket. I'm sure plenty will just click on 'buy'.

YPCrumble 9y ago

...and charge the going market rate of 30% of any revenue earned via the GitHub platform.

robzyb 9y ago
TravisCI Pro Bootstrap direct is $69: https://travis-ci.com/plans https://travis-ci.com/plans TravisCI Pro Bootstrap via Github is $89: https://github.com/marketplace/travis-ci/plan/MDIyOk1hcmtldHBsYWNlTGlzdGluZ1BsYW43MQ== https://github.com/marketplace/travis-ci/plan/MDIyOk1hcmtldH...
- devhead 9y ago
  any indication why the prices are different? it's not like they think we won't sniff that out, right?
  - TAForObvReasons 9y ago
    That's an oversight on Github's part and will end in a TOS change in one of two directions: price parity or complete prohibition of paid services that use GH integrations outside of the marketplace
    - abustamam 9y ago
      Ironic that the "hub for open-source projects" could become a walled garden if the latter happens.
      - deleted 9y ago
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      - stephenr 9y ago
        Irony is about intentions. Free-for-open is a marketing tactic, pure and simple.
      - robzyb 9y ago
        > Ironic that the "hub for open-source projects" could become a walled garden if the latter happens. I would say that the irony occurred when the "hub for open-source projects" is a closed-source platform. (And I would say that as a paying user of Github that rather loves it.)
  - stephenr 9y ago
    It's different because GH take a cut of any sales via the Marketplace. People already pay anywhere from 3-10x more for GH than for alternatives like BitBucket. I'm sure plenty will just click on 'buy'.