> This issue blows it way out of proportions. The code is still freely available, Github just doesn't want to give away resources for free because it's a for-profit company. If you're mad at a for-profit company for not giving away things for free, you're simply delusional.
GitHub is still giving away resources for free, they've done it forever because it was their business model: attract as many people as possible through open source repositories, a fraction of which will then use their non-free services (and more recently, also to train AI models).
Now that they're so dominant (and owned by Microsoft) they can afford to worsen the services, but people have every right to be pissed about it and push developers to move their repositories.
GitHub is still giving away resources for free, they've done it forever because it was their business model: attract as many people as possible through open source repositories, a fraction of which will then use their non-free services (and more recently, also to train AI models).
Now that they're so dominant (and owned by Microsoft) they can afford to worsen the services, but people have every right to be pissed about it and push developers to move their repositories.