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Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github? I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in
by simon_acca 8y ago
Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github?
I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github!
Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, it might be too late for github now, but I will myself conduct a review of the free services that I use regularly and reconsider pitching in, since I value independent businesses.
EDIT: looks like my experience may be atypical, that’s good!
Just for anecdata, would you include where you live as part of your replies? In my case it’s central europe.
- grandmczeb 8y agoI know plenty of orgs paying for Github. I don't know if your experience is typical.
- majewsky 8y agoMy company (SAP) has a GitHub Enterprise installation that, given the number of active users, is going to be a very pleasant revenue stream for GitHub.
- azernik 8y agoOh wow. That's a monster of an account to land.
- geerlingguy 8y agoI’ve paid for private repos on my personal GitHub account for years, and many of the companies I work for/with have paid organization accounts for GitHub, since the integrations and access control / management is really slick vs. setting it up internally. I can see many of these orgs (and myself) determining it’s worth the effort to move to GitLab / self-hosted depending on what Microsoft does.
- saagarjha 8y ago> I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. You're looking at the wrong people. It's companies who are paying for GitHub.
- simon_acca 8y agoAnd yet the article mentions losses, companies might not be enough
- ediardo 8y agoI know several small, medium, large companies paying github to keep their repos private. Also, github offers on-premises installation of their product.
- azernik 8y agoI pay for it for my business's private codebase; live in the SF Bay.
- zxcvhjkl 8y agoAnother sample of one: I pay for a personal account, although I don’t really have any projects that couldn’t be public, and my company pays for company account.
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