Is Github about to disrupt everything again with this new move?

Who actually pays then?

@asgs I'm fairly certain Microsoft didn't buy them for the money they were making (even though they probably don't mind)

Essence of corporations in the internet...

Nobody gives a fuck about Anti-competitive practices and unfair competition here.

@Jilano It's a great cheat sheet. IMHO it really is an ingenious move buying something like GitHub if you are a giant software company. Microsoft acquired Github in June 2018 and put a stake in India on Feb 2020. It doesn't matter if they lose money on GitHub
Microsoft's management would likely be looking out for the next big idea to be its cash cow. They could buy companies which are already established but that is expensive. What is cheaper is find that next innovative idea with the potential to be great. The most active project on GitHub can surely turn their heads pretending to be a curious passerby going to where the crowd gathers. And there is no such thing as free. Somewhere in that Terms and Conditions is a well-written (and by that it means ambiguous) statements that allowed them to be "curious" and peek at those codes or run them to see the features. All Microsoft has to do next is make their own team and beat the original team to the finish line to patent first.

Max repo size now 10MB, with every extra MB being $40/month.

@Parzi source? Ah only your hate

@shoop haters gonna hate, they're waiting to blame ms for something since they acquired github and we got instwad: free private repos, free ci/cd tools and now unlimited users for private repos

@dontbeevil actually, you used to be able to get to 1GB and just get a stern email about usage, but if it was actually needed, they'd allow it.

After the buyout happened and they made private repos free, you get 100MB or some shit and no matter what you gotta pay for more. If memory serves, some people got fucked by this and I remember a couple rants about it too.

I'm not hating on Microsoft, I still use Windows for things and I have an Xbox, but saying something negative about their changes doesn't make me a Microsoft-hating Linus dicksucker, you fucking mongoloid. Thank you for demonstrating inability to logically think about things, or else you would've had a thought go something like: "maybe he's making fun of a past decision they made, maybe I should go look that up?"

@shoop i...

fuck brb i got backups to upload

@Parzi no worries, you just misunderstood :)

@pythonInRelay and let's not forget about couple of big fuckups from gitlab, I know shit can happens, but they were HUGE ... what if it was MS? lol

@shoop quite standard TOS, like everyother similar service

@Jilano that's a given, yes. My question was actually, are there any category of users who will be paying at all? Including large enterprise ones

@asgs People make stupid decisions every day so I'd say yes (but not many, IMO)

Heard some talking about anti-competitiveness, but it seem to me GitHub did that in reaction to GitLab also releasing features for free, am I wrong ?