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by whit537 5017 days ago
They don't just use an open source piece of software (RoR), they use the open source community to build street cred that they then cash in to score their real customers.

Don't get me wrong: I love GitHub. It's a fantastic product and an inspiration to me. Instead of paying $7/mo for private repos, I choose to give back by gittiping members of the organization:

https://www.gittip.com/on/github/github/