Comment by simon_acca
8 years ago
Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github? I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github!
Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, it might be too late for github now, but I will myself conduct a review of the free services that I use regularly and reconsider pitching in, since I value independent businesses.
EDIT: looks like my experience may be atypical, that’s good! Just for anecdata, would you include where you live as part of your replies? In my case it’s central europe.
> I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool.
You're looking at the wrong people. It's companies who are paying for GitHub.
And yet the article mentions losses, companies might not be enough
I’ve paid for private repos on my personal GitHub account for years, and many of the companies I work for/with have paid organization accounts for GitHub, since the integrations and access control / management is really slick vs. setting it up internally. I can see many of these orgs (and myself) determining it’s worth the effort to move to GitLab / self-hosted depending on what Microsoft does.
I know plenty of orgs paying for Github. I don't know if your experience is typical.
My company (SAP) has a GitHub Enterprise installation that, given the number of active users, is going to be a very pleasant revenue stream for GitHub.
Oh wow. That's a monster of an account to land.
I know several small, medium, large companies paying github to keep their repos private. Also, github offers on-premises installation of their product.
Another sample of one: I pay for a personal account, although I don’t really have any projects that couldn’t be public, and my company pays for company account.
I pay for it for my business's private codebase; live in the SF Bay.