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> Maybe that's good-will doing the work? Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve
by IshKebab 6mo ago
> Maybe that's good-will doing the work?
Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve a lot of good will.
- kevmo 6mo agoYou're right, but that GitHub is dead. Also, the former stewards of that open source goodness sold it to Microsoft for a cheap buck. Any goodwill they earned has been spent.
- gordon_freeman 6mo agothey are not the non-profit. they make money of it and devs expect certain kind of service in return. GH failed to deliver on the service expectation.
- xp84 6mo agoWhat money do GH make off open source projects on the free tier? I haven’t seen ads, micropayments to clone repos, etc?
- tardedmeme 6mo agoIt's the marketing budget. People only pay for it because they've used it for free.
- collinmanderson 6mo agohttps://xkcd.com/1150/ https://xkcd.com/1150/
- IshKebab 6mo agoOversimplification.