Comment by matthewmacleod

This completely misses the forest for the trees.

I currently pay for GitHub, personally. This has the following benefits:

- Easy to collaborate with other people if I want to invite them to my projects.

- Web-based code hosting, meaning I can access my code from anywhere regardless of whether I have access to my own machine or not.

- A web interface! This is quite useful for browsing code or sharing particular snippets with others.

- Integration with third-party tools. Almost literally every code-related service that offers integration will integrate with GitHub – things like CI servers etc. for example. This means basically zero-effort setup for many other tools.

The cost to me is basically a rounding error, and the utility is great.