Microsoft GitHub is Not Free Hosting and It Won't Last
Not for much longer
About 3 years ago in IRC someone argued that hosting pages in GitHub was 'free', perhaps failing to grasp how these things work in practice. Or how much GitHub was losing. Last year it got mothballed inwards [1, 2].
In some sense, it is a lot of the same as what we see in XBox. Microsoft is afraid to say that it is pulling the plug, but it seems inevitable. It's only a question of when, not if.
Remember that Microsoft already got rid of two GitHub CEOs, removed the role entirely, and then tried to censor our criticism of it. Microsoft GitHub offices got shut down permanently and there were more waves of mass layoffs than we care to recall.
There's nothing free about GitHub. It's a bear trap. █