Comment by dragonwriter

> I'm also optimistic they'll revamp GitHub's pricing structure.

Well, it's Microsoft, so more complex tiering and tie in to MSDN should be on the road map.

> Their current price of $7 a month is absolutely absurd for individual developers.

How so?

> I can get a pretty decent VPS for $2 a month cheaper.

Perhaps, so what? That's an unrelated service.

> Considering that most of their competitors give small teams free private repos, their price should be half of that.

Their competitors do that to build a user base and mind share in the face of GitHub’s huge advantage in network effects.