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We charge for private repositories at GitHub. As a result, we often get emails from students asking for free, private accounts (usually of the $7/mo or $12/mo variety).

"I'm working on a website with some friends and we don't have any money. If we start making money, we'll gladly move to a paid account!"

While we offer free private accounts to instructors for classes, we haven't given students free accounts to work on commercial projects in the past.

Should we? Would you?

CNAME support is planned. We just wanted to get this thing out the door.

Here's a linked link to the video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keyn...

(The preview image is not my default facial expression, I swear.)

Converting over to a pure-Ruby solution has taken us weeks. If we had put forth this effort pre-launch, it would have either a) cost us integral features or b) pushed back the launch.

So... hackers create startups and developers work happily in the corporate world? I'm fine with that.