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Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by mrkurt on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:24PM (#23339122)
Well, they did just make a bunch of previously paid GitHub stuff free. That's something only a company the size of Microsoft can do.
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Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by noisem4ker on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:42PM (#23339401)
According to GitHub's CEO posting here [1], the costs are sustained by the paying GitHub Enterprise user base.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867808

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Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by mrkurt on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:57PM (#23339592)
Sure. Large companies make things free because they can subsidize them with other products.

The question is: did they do this to win market share? I think it makes _total_ sense for MS to make a bunch of GitHub services free. I also think it's harmful to competition.

One of the worst policy choices the US has made in the last 30 years is judging antitrust almost _entirely_ through the lens of "monetary cost to end users".

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Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by johannes1234321 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:37PM (#23340761)
I would argue they made this due to competition with GitLab, backed by their working business model.

The less reasons there are for using GitLab (private repos was one thing which got me initially, using GitLab over my self administered servers to move code around and share with friends) the better for keeping their quasi-monopoly.

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Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by ensignavenger on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:15PM (#23340481)
Gitlab has always had many of those same features- and more- for free- and they aren't as large as Github alone was.
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