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It should be noted that we're talking about Microsoft's resources here, not some independent CI company or startup. While I don't wanna encourage anyone violating any ToS I think the moral situation is a bit different for a tech giant.

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It's not about Microsoft's resources, it's about holding up those resources from others

The resources are effectively limitless, it’s not a big deal.

It's a tragedy of the commons situation. Microsoft might be _able_ to provided effectively limitless funding to power these free workers, but if enough people choose to abuse this, Microsoft might no longer be _willing_ to provide that funding, so everybody would be deprived of a useful resource because of the bad actors.

Yeah, Microsoft does some very strange things. Particularly, I'd like to draw attention to how skydrive/one drive used to have 25? GB and not only did Microsoft lower it to 7? But it said it would delete files over the limit. I have gone over the limit on Dropbox and it just stops you from uploading until you bring your storage within quota. Google Drive does the same iirc. Microsoft is just outright terrible.

I would even argue that rampant abuse might actually be threatening to GitHub the company.

MS may still be the type of company to change it’s mind about upholding the principles that GitHub runs on.

You mean MacStadium resources, since that's the 3rd party company that provides the actual backend service.

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