Comment by robinhood
21 days ago
The article might be true for private companies, but as an OSS developer with one popular project and many smaller ones, having free access to a CI that, yes, sucks balls in terms of UX (ohhh the horrible click on a failed job and never be able to come back reliably), but which still work and is still pretty fast for the price I pay (ie 0$), is great. I think it's net positive for the OSS community.
Buildkite also seems to have a free option but I have no concept of how the value compares to the free option for GitHub Actions.