> Maybe that's good-will doing the work?

Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve a lot of good will.

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gordon_freeman a day ago | parent | next [-]

they are not the non-profit. they make money of it and devs expect certain kind of service in return. GH failed to deliver on the service expectation.

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xp84 a day ago | parent [-]

What money do GH make off open source projects on the free tier? I haven’t seen ads, micropayments to clone repos, etc?

	▲	tardedmeme a day ago \| parent [-]
		It's the marketing budget. People only pay for it because they've used it for free.

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collinmanderson a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://xkcd.com/1150/

	▲	IshKebab a day ago \| parent [-]
		Oversimplification.

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kevmo a day ago | parent | prev [-]

You're right, but that GitHub is dead.

Also, the former stewards of that open source goodness sold it to Microsoft for a cheap buck.

Any goodwill they earned has been spent.