[vandahm]

For my personal stuff, I'm happy to pay GitHub to host my private repositories, but it's not always that simple. I work for a large, bureaucratic corporation in a heavily regulated industry. If something costs money -- even a dollar -- someone has to pay for it, which means that someone has to approve the expense, which means you need a risk assessment and permission from legal. Even if it doesn't cost money, there are a lot of bureaucratic hassles associated with using external services to store company IP. Sure, maintaining your own source control server takes time, but so do the alternatives.