Hardly believe that (Atlassian owned) Bitbucket is doing such attack. Bitbucket offers free private repos, not just git but mercurial hosting. Although way less popular, I think Bitbucket has features to gain ground in the long run without the need of tactics like DDOSes.
It was a lame joke, but the amount of "whoosh" in this thread is a bit mind boggling.
I'm guessing that that was probably a joke?
I believe he was making a joke.
Yes, because a respectable company like Atlassian would risk their entire business to give a small boost to just one of their many products by dealing with black market botnets.
I can't believe is needs to be said, but that was a joke. It had to be.