[tazjin]

Killing off free repos is not going to happen. That would be a suicide move on the level of the Digg redesign, or Tumblr's porn ban.

It kind of would be good for everyone if they did do it though. Need to get rid of this monopoly, and maybe people will discover that there are alternatives with actually good workflows out there.

[bigbuppo]

They are owned by Microsoft. When has Microsoft ever had a good idea?

[danudey]

Buying Github seems like a good idea? But fucking it up wasn't, so maybe it comes out even.

[agos]

it would indeed be a suicide move, but note that you are comparing that to two moves that have happened, so it's not unprecedented.

[rcakebread]

Microsoft has suicide-ed bigger than Digg.