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We compete against BitBucket's free plan by providing better service & features, a much larger community, and an insane amount of publicly available code. It c
by pjhyett 16y ago
We compete against BitBucket's free plan by providing better service & features, a much larger community, and an insane amount of publicly available code.
It came as no surprise to us when Atlassian decided the only way BitBucket could compete with GitHub was to essentially give it away.
While they can afford to do this now, I'm fearful that the people choosing BitBucket for this reason alone may get a rude awakening when Atlassian decides BitBucket shouldn't continue being a loss-leader for the rest of their products.
Our growth at GitHub has only continued to increase month over month, so while people laud BitBucket's free plan, many more understand the value of paying for a premium service.
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- ErrantX 16y agoI have huge respect for Github, but I don't like git. Hence my choice of provider. But, ultimately, I see only good things in having two competing products and providers, and I hope you all both do well :)
- pjhyett 16y agoI don't begrudge you for using BitBucket because you prefer Mercurial, but your original response only had to do with the cost of the service which is why I felt compelled to respond. Thanks for the kind words about GitHub.