Announcing unlimited free private repos

Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by sangnoir on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:35PM (#18849090)

...or else what? Are the developers going to mass-migrate to SourceForge?[1] Github has a lot of leeway/social capital - they are hardcoded into the infrastructure both literally and figuratively.

edit: 1. I literally forgot about Gitlab as a Github substitute when I wrote the comment, interpret that as you may.

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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by audleman on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:25PM (#18851364)

> ...or else what? Are the developers going to mass-migrate

Yes, that is the obvious risk. Gitlab is the #2 in the space, right now they don't have much market share but if an avaricious corporation violated the spirit of Github? It might be the chance they need.

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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by woolvalley on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:37PM (#18849112)

Bitbucket, gitlab, some other new service that takes advantage of the gap left by mismanagement?

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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by sangnoir on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:42PM (#18849174)

I remembered Gitlab after I posted but before I saw your comment and made an edit. Github has network effects and inertia on its side - switching to any other service has a cost, and Microsoft has to piss off developers enough to justify the switch - moderate annoyances will be tolerated.

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