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Start charging more, cut down on CI, figure it out. You don't NEED to give away so much if it means your service is going down.

There isn’t mission critical work being done on GH. You start charging more and the people in charge of finance at companies paying for GH will actually start paying attention. Those finance people don’t care rn because GH is affordable and helps get stuff done. There’s a threshold that exist at every company and once it’s crossed the people who can make money decisions start asking questions

There is absolutely mission critical work being done on GitHub... There are enterprises paying them for their CI and deployment pipelines

You don't need to be a CEO to come to the conclusion that throttling to discourage excessive usage is probably a good idea.

It’s not just free users with excessive commits, actions, etc…

Enterprises are benefitting from the same AI and are increasing their volumes as well

You need to be a CEO to come to the opposite conclusion, apparently

The move would have been to avoid purchasing and operating a subsidiary wit a question mark for a budget,

unless the firm was prepared to see it through.