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Well, they did just make a bunch of previously paid GitHub stuff free. That's something only a company the size of Microsoft can do.
by mrkurt 6y ago
Well, they did just make a bunch of previously paid GitHub stuff free. That's something only a company the size of Microsoft can do.
- noisem4ker 6y agoAccording to GitHub's CEO posting here [1], the costs are sustained by the paying GitHub Enterprise user base. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867808 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867808
- mrkurt 6y agoSure. Large companies make things free because they can subsidize them with other products. The question is: did they do this to win market share? I think it makes _total_ sense for MS to make a bunch of GitHub services free. I also think it's harmful to competition. One of the worst policy choices the US has made in the last 30 years is judging antitrust almost _entirely_ through the lens of "monetary cost to end users".
- johannes1234321 6y agoI would argue they made this due to competition with GitLab, backed by their working business model. The less reasons there are for using GitLab (private repos was one thing which got me initially, using GitLab over my self administered servers to move code around and share with friends) the better for keeping their quasi-monopoly.
- ensignavenger 6y agoGitlab has always had many of those same features- and more- for free- and they aren't as large as Github alone was.