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> Although we gave away 11.5 billion build minutes (~$184 million) to support OSS last year

Interesting, I was trying to estimate how much they spent on free actions per year. I thought it would be around $100m. This is the first actual number I've seen.

I expect the $184 million figure is the sale price rather than the actual cost to GitHub, and given that competitors offer the same service for 3-10x less it's probably more like $80m overall I'd guess.

Still a pretty huge amount of money that I don't think any competitors can really hope to match.





I wonder how much of that $80 million is garbage code like safe_sleep.sh



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