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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) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:02PM (7 children)
Where's the money then?
I know github enterprise costs more than any sane person would pay. But I don't see how this nets more github enterprise subscribers.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:38PM (1 child)
They're charging for operating costs which happens to be almost nil for storage and a couple of bucks for CPU time. When your target market are developers you sorta have to do it otherwise they'll just rent cycles from Amazon and put together their own build servers. Besides, 2000 minutes of continues integration aren't a whole lot if your team builds and/or tests with each commit. Especially post-COVID-19 as we'll start seeing more and more people working from their homes or from other countries.
compiling...
(Score: 3, Funny) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 15 2020, @09:34PM
Appropriate sig, then I suppose.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @09:05PM (3 children)
It doesn't have to, as long as it starves the competition of subscribers. You know, the competition which doesn't have multi-billion dollar war-chests to survive a price war on.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 15 2020, @09:26PM (2 children)
Atlassian is valued at 17.8 billion dollars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @11:39PM (1 child)
"Valued" is a very subjective thing subject to rapid decline when sentiment changes ( see Tesla share price for example). What matters is how much cash they have... hard dollars, moolah, loot.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday April 16 2020, @12:24PM
People pay out the nose for JIRA
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 16 2020, @01:39AM
You will pay Azure services for building/testing the software that you keep private. Or so they hope.
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