When I was in college, food was a necessity in order to survive and was a justified expense in my head. Starbucks, on the other hand, was an occasional luxury

When I was in college, food was a necessity in order to survive and was a justified expense in my head. Starbucks, on the other hand, was an occasional luxury that I typically tried to avoid. For a college student who is probably paying for hosting and domain names on top of all their required college expenses, it makes more sense to use a free alternative or a completely different system (svn) rather than add on another monthly expense. At least that was what college was like for me and so now I'm stuck on subversion. If I had the opportunity to try out GitHub for free, I would have jumped on the opportunity and would probably eventually switch to a paying customer.