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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by woodruffw on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:50PM (#13190917)
I can't blame them (being GitHub). Bandwidth and storage can be expensive.

That being said, I think it's inaccurate to characterize the people using GitHub as a CDN uniformly as "cheapskates". Many are just open source developers, often of limited means, trying to expose their work to the largest audience possible.

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by pawadu on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:42AM (#13192160)
I disagree.

When you just start your project you may use github as your CDN and hope no one notices, but when you are as big as homebrew using someones elses resources like this is a pretty bad practice.

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