[BradRuderman]

Its unfortunate that this doesn't promote trying to get business users to look at the code. In our organization 3 or 4 users are read only and really just go in at times to check specific errors, or logic for certain SQL queries, they don't really contribute. We will now have to pay $9 per month for these type of "read only" users.

[voltagex_]

Couldn't you use some other kind of display for these users? Seems like you'd only need 2 or 3 of these to justify a small project to get them the information they need without needing to be a paying GitHub user.

[majewsky]

Couldn't you just use the same account for all of them, with a shared password?

[Xylakant]

how would you restrict to repositories then? Given a large enough set of external stakeholders using a single account is not feasible.