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For Microsoft, they are all under the same Microsoft account. So I guess these big boys have special contracts.

If we were only doing pure open source, public repos, there would be no cost to us ($0).

The truth is that we actually do pay, as we have private repositories. We ask that people prepare their initial open source releases during a 30-day window - making sure they have a decent README file, the right LICENSE, Code of Conduct, etc.

Full disclosure, I work at Microsoft within our Open Source Programs Office and I own our billing relationship with GitHub for the large organizations including Microsoft, Azure, etc. We pay via a yearly invoice for a set level of services today but we're always looking for better ways to collaborate with GitHub!

MS has many different orgs. Example: https://github.com/Azure

Another example: https://github.com/dotnet

Interesting. Though I'm sure it's still tied to the same customer account, no?

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