I asked Tom from github about this when I met him. Apparently they hear it a lot. He had two responses. The first was that they didn't want to commoditize their

I asked Tom from github about this when I met him. Apparently they hear it a lot. He had two responses. The first was that they didn't want to commoditize their service, which they thought competing on disk space would do. The second is that they limiting private repos made people upgrade, and provided most of their revenue. I really don't like the response. git encourages a repo-per project, but github discourages it with their plans. This impedance mismatch means I don't use github for private hosting, only for open source projects, where there is no such mismatch.