As Microsoft's Debt Surges to Unprecedented 111+ Billion Dollars, How Long Can It Keep Loss Leaders (Such as GitHub) Going?
Based on this report:
The key takeaway:
"In some cases, losses reached as much as $80 per month."
So they lose 240 US dollars per year on each user, selling plagiarism as a service which in turn leads to class action lawsuits.
Is there a viable plan?
Even Microsoft boosters wrote about it [1, 2] at the time.
Truth be said, GitHub never made any money, just lost a lot of money.
It's like YouTube in a sense - a legal liability and hardly an asset if profit matters. GitHub and YouTube have both had mass layoffs and that hasn't helped profitability.
GitHub is in the news again today in relation to lease renewal following reports that it was shutting down all of its offices.
Do you want to depend on GitHub's 'generosity' for your project/s? It's a risky proposition at times of mass layoffs and product/service shutdowns [1, 2, 3].