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Comment by manigandham

8 years ago

You answered it yourself. Github gets money to stay alive, and resources and leadership to actually start building again.

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jacques_chester  8 years ago

Is Github actually hurting for money? It has to be sitting athwart one of the most reliable rivers of gold amongst the independents.

  • bigdubs  8 years ago

    Github loses 66mm on 98mm in revenue. They're hurting pretty bad.

    • malloryerik  8 years ago

      Is it right to assume that this is because so much of their hosting is for free, open source projects?

      And if so, then were open source to move toward GitLab with their even more permissive policies, how could they avoid the same fate?

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  • neaanopri  8 years ago

    Well, Github execs could do the responsible thing and cut costs. But that sounds hard, and like it would require effort, so here we go. It's sad.