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bdbdbdblast Tuesday at 9:31 PM1 replyview on HN

It sounds like a bad deal right?

Except the alternative is I do this for free but also I'm doing all the testing and providing the hardware.

I'm only going to charge you if you do most of the work yourself


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gaigalaslast Tuesday at 10:06 PM

If you do it all, you can optimize the whole supply chain. Maybe you can put some expensive capacity you built to use and leverage it when otherwise impossible, etc.

Maybe it's bad business dealing with lots of non-standardized external hosts, and it drags you down.

Maybe people are abusing the free orchestration to do non-CI stuff and they're compromising legitimate users.

Look, I understand it's frustrating to some consumers. However, it's not irrational from GitHub's point of view.

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