The CEO of the new-generation system unlock, Nat Friedman, said in the official announcement blog that so far, if any organization wants to use GitHub for private development, it must pay. But every developer should have access to GitHub, and the price should not be an obstacle.
Now, the announcement of this free plan means that the team can now manage their work together in one place: CI / CD, project management, code review, software packages, etc. GitHub hopes that everyone can publish great software on the platform.
For teams that require advanced features (such as code owners), enterprise features (such as SAML), or personalized support, you can upgrade for a fee.
In addition, the monthly pricing of the paid team has also been reduced from $ 9 / person to $ 4 / person, effective immediately. What about paid users? Don't worry, GitHub will refund the difference within 30 days.
The specific plan and price changes are as follows:
GitHub Free for organizations is immediately available, including private repositories. There will no longer be a limit on the number of people;
all organizations that previously used Team for Open Source now have GitHub Free; GitHub Free
for individual developers does not limit the number of collaboration groups;
use GitHub Free organizations and individuals will receive GitHub Community Support;
GitHub Pro will now include 2GB of Packages storage and 10GB of data transmission; the monthly price will be reduced from $ 7 to $ 4;
GitHub Team now reduces the monthly fee per user to 4 There is no minimum consumption in US dollars;
from May 14th, the GitHub team will provide 3000 minutes of action time for the private warehouse every month.
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The latest pricing table, GitHub Free has added a private warehouse for the team, and the monthly price of GitHub Team has been reduced from $ 9 to $ 4.
User: Really Fragrant! Thanks to Microsoft's father
Nat Friedman in the statement, there are already more than 40 million developers on GitHub, and the team estimates that this number will reach 100 million by 2025.
In other words, as of now, more than 40 million users will enjoy these benefits.
Everyone is very curious after all, like this: Why is GitHub so rich? What makes you profitable?
In Nat Friedman's online question and answer on Hacker News today, a netizen couldn't help but ask questions directly, and Friedman's answer was, "We really have a lot of large enterprise users!"
But is this really the case?
In fact, GitHub's profit model has been a hot topic for everyone to discuss. Someone once analyzed that GitHub has no competitive advantage in terms of profit compared with BitBucket and Gitlab. For example, Gitlab's solution based on its open source version may be more suitable for large companies willing to pay a high price.
The original purpose of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub is not to see whether it is profitable or not, but it is more concerned about the customer resources brought by GitHub and the greater value it creates in the future.
In this way, GitHub can only be responsible for attracting more users, and other things that cost money should be handed over to the wealthy Microsoft father.
Below Nat Friedman's tweet that announced the news, there was full cheering and thanks to Microsoft's father.
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Weibo is also full of happiness: It ’s great to have Microsoft Dad!
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Indeed, GitHub's series of free policies are all acquired by Microsoft.
On January 8, last year, the new generation system unlocked announced that it is free for individual developers' private repositories, namely GitHub Free, and provides three free collaborators. If more collaborators are needed, payment will be required.
At that time, this announcement had been "really fragrant" by everyone. Now, GitHub has once again waved its hand and opened GitHub Free directly to the team. A large number of new users may be coming.
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Many domestic developers also said that they would go to repair walls
, miners, and cloud disks: welfare also brings the risk of abuse.
With the financial support of Microsoft, GitHub is becoming more and more conscience, which is a good thing for most developers.
However, this also makes people worry about whether it will be abused? For example, unlimited cloud storage space is used as a free network disk or map bed.
Knowing that netizens use GitHub as a lightweight network disk
There are even developers writing tutorials on how to turn GitHub into an unlimited cloud disk:
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Let Microsoft pay for your unlimited cloud storage.
Today, GitHub benefits just came out, and a wave of wool parties may not be able to sit still.
In addition, there is a new generation system that unlocks GitHub Pages, a free web hosting service for phishing attacks.
These concerns are not superfluous. There are already examples of free services being abused and abused. For example, the free GPU resources provided by Google Colab will be used by some wool parties to mine.
