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There is a legitimate problem in the software/developer tools ecosystem that everyone wants everything to be free, which means no one can make money building it

by stephen 13y ago

There is a legitimate problem in the software/developer tools ecosystem that everyone wants everything to be free, which means no one can make money building it. I'm actually looking forward to Github's solution to this, given they are generally pretty smart folk. Perhaps they'll find a model that others can follow.

michaelll 13y ago
On the flip side, they do seem to be making money off of services built upon the free software licensed Git.
- stephen 13y ago
  True. SaaS FTW. Git wasn't really their codebase though, although, true, they do employ core people now (IIRC/AFAIK). Pessimistically, given that Atom is not initially/wonderfully open source, if Git had been Github's codebase from day 1, it is likely they would have had the same "crap, we must charge for this somehow" thoughts they are having now, and Git as we know it would not have happened.