GitHub hosts public repositories for free, so this doesn't seem to directly apply. GitHub is phenomenal software, and I'm happy to pay for it. If you're not in

GitHub hosts public repositories for free, so this doesn't seem to directly apply. GitHub is phenomenal software, and I'm happy to pay for it. If you're not in a situation to pay for it, I feel for you, but software is a lot of really, really, really hard work, and I don't expect to receive the fruit of that work for free. As a programmer, I would hope you would feel the same way, even if you don't decide to pay for said software.