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The commercial option tends to look like the better option at first, because companies invest a lot of money upfront to polish the product and buy market share
by leereeves 8y ago
The commercial option tends to look like the better option at first, because companies invest a lot of money upfront to polish the product and buy market share by giving the product away.
Later, when the company is fully grown, customers are locked-in, and investors want to cash out, the commercial option often becomes the worse option.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoExcept GitHub has become freer since Microsoft bought it, you can now have unlimited private repos for no cost.
- ksaj 8y agoThis was a choice that kept me on board without panicking and jumping ship like many others. I'm pretty comfortable with github, and find its search engine options and overall site responsiveness (speed) to literally quash any chance of me joining the fleeing masses. The private repos was a very happy addition.
- ksaj 8y agoOut of curiosity, how does this lock-in manifest itself? I'm pretty sure all I'd have to do to move to a competitor is upload my local directories to that site. Is it the loss of revision history, or ??