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Github has a very cool business model. They launch most of their services for free in public repos and have a pay for using them in private repos. So when people use them and like them in open environment, github get free advertisements for potential customers that might use that in closed environment.

Google also has a similar model with its gsuite, but it has its advertisements business model over it that makes it look bad.

Personally, i like github's model but google gets a bad light for not being privacy focussed, while github is thriving.

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  • 2
    What I understood is that their business model is based on loosing money to kill the competition.

    The only exception is that github competition was young and poor and google competition is already a standard in corporate environment.
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    A few months ago, GitHub even made private repos free.
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    Isn’t this the foundation of most FREE SaaS platforms?
  • 1
    @DuckWit private repos became free, if they had less than 3 users. And there are significant restrictions beyond that.
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