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GitHub gives away an incredibly powerful service (hosted version control) for free. While hosting it may not be in itself a considerable expense, personnel and
by primitivesuave 13y ago
GitHub gives away an incredibly powerful service (hosted version control) for free. While hosting it may not be in itself a considerable expense, personnel and R&D is.
They have all the rights to recover their costs in some way. At the end of the day, they are a business.
- mempko 13y agoMaking the service free for open source and free software was a strategic business decision. Services like github make money from private repos and a good advertisement for the service is to allow open software to use it for free. Nobody asked them to spend their money creating an editor. It was their decision. They have been profitable for a while now and deciding to make an editor, charging for it, is not recouping costs for their existing service...
- watty 13y agoHow do you know what their business plan is? They're a big boy company, they can make decisions based off of their own financial analysis. They decided that charging for this editor was more profitable for them as a company. Expecting something to be open source is like expecting McDonald's to give away cheeseburgers.
- zeckalpha 13y agoMcDonald's does give away straws, however.
- stock_toaster 13y agoAnd ketchup.
- eru 13y agoIn Germany they charge for the ketchup.
- primitivesuave 13y agoThis is actually standard practice in airport McDonalds in many places of the world.