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by thrower123 2053 days ago
Relying on generosity when there are infrastructure costs does not seem to be a workable model. It's somewhat amazing that it has survived so long.
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> Relying on generosity when there are infrastructure costs does not seem to be a workable model. It's somewhat amazing that it has survived so long.

I too was initially surprised but then I thought of github (this was also the case pre-microsoft acquisition), sourceforge, gitlab, etc who all seem fine with me downloading/cloning as many repos as I want without charge.