I too would have kept it "free" for the LLM learning corpus and the way to nudge developers towards own cloud services and infrastructure. Github Actions is the first obvious deviation from vendor agnosticism here. If it's about "they didn't make profit maximization at all costs a priority" then I agree.
replyWhat are you saying? It's not ok for it to be free because they're using that to encourage people to use their paid services? Uhm no shit.
replyAnd your comment about LLMs is even sillier. Not only did they buy it 5 years before LLMs became relevant, but there's nothing stopping anyone other than Microsoft from downloading all of GitHub. Look at grep.app for example.
Yeah man, it's super free! And the paid product even works properly 4 out of 5 weekdays
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