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		bootload on Dec 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 "Github Open source Hosting should be supported by donation model like Wikipedia." That's why I asked the Q. Seems strange that large FOSS projects are hosted but no effort by github made to get some return.

h1d on Dec 17, 2016 [–]

Everyone flocking to use GitHub, is the return.

bootload on Dec 17, 2016 | [–]

"Everyone flocking to use GitHub"

Infrastructure costs dollars. Everyone uses it puts more pressure on the uptime. Is GitHub as big (as much money to splash around) as google?

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