[marclove]

What about appreciation for a company that essentially helped sponsor your company's incubation?

One of the things I appreciate about EngineYard, and the Ruby development world in general, is that they appreciate the benefit of helping to incubate open-source and small startup operations. It's about re-investing back into the community. They did this when they helped incubate a startup company with some great programming minds behind it, which they knew would assist in the rapid development of open-source Ruby libraries.

But it seems GitHub hasn't absorbed any of that mindset by their move to ditch their supporter as soon as they're in a position to show appreciation for the help by actually paying for the service they receive for once.

[scott_s]

And what if GitHub can't afford EngineYard?

[marclove]

I find that hard to believe. They're one of the most popular and successful companies in the Ruby community and they have paid accounts that they've been collecting on for quite some time now. EY has thousands of customers who pay them every month and can afford it. How would it be that one of their most popular customers who doesn't pay anything for hosting wouldn't be able to pay them for once?

[grandalf]

EY is super expensive. Also most of the cost is for support techs who can read/understand ruby code and gems. Chances are the github guys don't really need that.

[technoweenie]

How many of those customers have VC funding? Github is completely bootstrapped.

[freetard]

scott_s is scott shacon and works for github

[ptomato]

No he isn't. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scott_s

[scott_s]

Indeed, I am not Scott Shacon. Too many Scott's! One time in undergrad three of us sat in a column and confused the hell out of our compiler's professor.

[ionfish]

No, it's not. Scott Chacon's surname starts with a C, not an S.

http://github.com/schacon

http://progit.org/