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by dclusin 4104 days ago
Sort of off topic, but I've always wondered if github charges larger orgs for hosting their projects like this. It seems like google and and microsoft get tons of free bandwidth from github to the point of being unsustainable w/o charging.
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I would bet that it helps github far more than it hurts.

Having a company like Microsoft mentioning github all the time is great publicity.

Also bandwidth for hosting code is so cheap to be practically negligible.

We do not charge for hosting any open source project, large or small.