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GitHub is now free for all teams – TechCrunch:
GitHub today announced that all of its core features are now available for free to all users, including those that are currently on free accounts. That means free unlimited private repositories with unlimited collaborators for all, including teams that use the service for commercial projects, as well as up to 2,000 minutes per month of free access to GitHub Actions, the company’s automation and CI/CD platform.
Teams that want more advanced features like code owners or enterprise features like SAML support will still have to upgrade to a paid plan, but those now start at $4 per month and user for the Teams plans instead of the previous $9, with the Enterprise plan starting at $21 per month and user.
[...] “We’re switching GitHub from a pay-for-privacy model to pay-for-features, what’s typically called freemium — you may have heard of it,” [CEO Nat] Friedman said. “The way I think about it is we want every developer and team on earth to be able to use GitHub for their development, whether it’s private or public development.”
Right now, there are more than 40 million developers on GitHub, and Friedman says the team is projecting that it will get to 100 million by 2025.
[...] Friedman argues that the team didn’t make these changes because of competitive pressure from other players, though it’s worth mentioning that GitLab, for example, offers a competitive free plan with built-in CI/CD features, whereas Atlassian’s BitBucket now has a free offering that looks a bit limited in light of GitHub’s changes.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @07:35PM (7 children)
So you load your software onto Microsoft's servers for free and...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @07:37PM (3 children)
... it ends up as a free app in the next version of Windows (c) 2020 Microsoft. You should have read the fine print.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:09PM (2 children)
So Microsoft will thenceforth be responsible for maintaining my buggy code and providing tech support to irate users? Cool. I guess Microsoft should have read the fine print code, eh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:19PM
Only the best levels of unpaid volunteer tech support.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2020, @02:34AM
They just do what they already to, which is what all these companies do, throw up a community support site and let people provide tech support for free.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @07:40PM
Took it in the bottom now I'm queer
Took it in the bottom now my whole team queer, yeah
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:04PM (1 child)
The good news is that Microsoft can't hold your data hostage. That's part of the design.
The bad news is that they're still charging you for free stuff. To interact with GitHub you've got to have Git installed, and if you've got Git installed then you've got unlimited free and very private repositories right at your fingertips.
I suppose they're also providing hosting availability and bandwidth, which are valuable services. And some account and email stuff which is also available for free via Gitea or open-source alternative of choice.
Kinda disappointing that the BSD vs GPL wars are irrelevant -- no matter which flavor of free something is, we still fall all over ourselves to pay for it.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:28PM
You haven't explained what free stuff you have to pay for if you use Microsoft's github.