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This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far

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Re: As ever

99% of Linux users never write any code for it (made up stat).

There are a lot of brainwashed sheeple here regurgitating memes. ALL the major commercial Git (and other) VCS providers provide free tiers, though some only do it for FOSS... do you think they do that out of some altruistic duty or that FOSS repos don't consume resources like private repos do? The majority of cloudy software have free tiers for 1-5 users, etc.

They do this to get brand awareness and so that when developers are in a position to need paid services, they'll go with who they know/like.

It's not a million miles away from the shareware paradigm. Even MS have been doing free versions of VS for years and years and these are all GOOD for FOSS and GOOD for helping kids get into coding.

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